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#1598 Kiss of Death: Henry Kissinger's Bloody Legacy of Indifference from 2023-12-13T01:57
Air Date 12/12/2023
Henry Kissinger, it turns out, was actually a pretty good representative of the United States, the foreign policy actions we...
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#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity from 2023-12-08T19:29
Air Date 12/8/2023
Neoliberalism has created a lot of economic suffering and insecurity in addition to weakened social ties over the past few de...
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#1596 Building a positive future by first envisioning it and then designing it from 2023-12-06T02:57
Air Date 12/5/2023
It's important to focus on positive visions and not only get stuck in doom cycles of complaining about what's going wrong. So...
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#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move (Throwback) from 2023-12-02T00:43
Original Air Date: 10/8/2022
Today, we take a look at the recent elections in Italy, Brazil and Sweden where far-right parties are either taking...
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#1595 Pushing for Medicare For All in the Laboratories of Democracy from 2023-11-29T23:16
Air Date 11/29/2023
The movement for universal health care is still underway, though it rarely gets recognized in mainstream discourse. The deat...
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#1594 Testing New Climate Solutions: Geothermal and Geo-Engineering from 2023-11-26T12:47
Air Date 11/26/2023
As the hottest year in 125,000 years or so begins to come to a close, we turn to two projects still in their infancy that ha...
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#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad (Repost) from 2023-11-22T22:35
Original Air Date 10-5-2022
Today, we take a look at the life and legacy of President Ronald Reagan, the last transformational U.S. president who's regime we are stil...
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#1593 Beyond Neoliberalism: Dreaming a new economic system into being from 2023-11-15T01:55
Air Date 11/14/2023
The Supreme Court turned the table on average, working people back in the 70s when they empowered wealthy individuals and co...
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#1592 Israel and Palestine are less complicated than you think: Standing for international law while condemning crimes against humanity, war crimes, antisemitism, and apartheid. from 2023-11-11T02:35
Air Date 11/10/2023
Violence and oppression are destructive and corrosive to both the victim and perpetrator and this goes a long way toward exp...
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#1591 Broken News: Understanding traditional media and social media reporting on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza from 2023-11-06T20:20
Air Date 11/6/2023
Media literacy is a basic requirement for understanding the war in Gaza, as propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation ar...
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#TBT #1510 Avoiding Accountability: How the powerful in the US have almost always been allowed to skate by (Throwback) from 2023-11-01T14:30
Original Air Date: 8/31/2022
Today, as the news of Trump's various trials continues to drop out, we take a look back at this episode covering th...
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#TBT #1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress (Throwback) from 2023-10-27T14:23
Original Air Date: 8/16/2022
Today, we take a look at the strategies underway to systematically dismantle democracy in the United States includi...
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#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream being given a vaguely respectable coat of paint by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation paving the way for an unconstrained, lawless, authoritarian Republican president from 2023-10-24T20:00
Air Date 10/23/2023
The people who want to pull the country in directions that are only supported by a small minority of the population have to ...
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Bonus Sample #279 Complainers gonna complain, creepers gonna creep from 2023-10-21T18:07
Air Date: 10-21-23
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Erin and Deon discuss:
- the complainers at The Atlantic
- why a mindful workforce is an oxymoron
- the myria...
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#1589 War in the Holy Land: Context Behind the Atrocities, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Possible Escalation That Will be Detrimental to All Sides in the Wake of the Hamas Attack Israel is Calling Their "9-11" from 2023-10-17T23:19
Air Date 10/17/2023
There is absolutely no understanding of the conflict in Israel and Gaza without deep context, history, and human psychology....
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#1588 The Shutdown That Wasn't And The Chaos That Is: The far-right of the GOP has been intent on not governing for a long time and eating their own, like McCarthy most recently, is their go-to maneuver. from 2023-10-13T21:26
Air Date 10/13/2023
Understanding the historical context of the civil war within the GOP as they have just fought their way out of being able to...
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#TBT #1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress (Throwback) from 2023-10-10T23:51
Original Air Date: 2/22/2023
Today, we take a look at some of the work of the chaotic wrecking crew that is the GOP of the 118th Congress includ...
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#1587 What Conservatives Think of When They Think of the Children: Child Labor, Child Brides, Child Mothers, Childhood Poverty, Child Indoctrination from 2023-10-07T12:04
Air Date 10/7/2023
Spanning the gamut of terrible policy choices and their impacts on children, we look today at the perverse reality at odds wi...
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#1586 Cop City is the Backlash to the Backlash Against Police Brutality and Murder, the Atlanta Community is Fighting Back and Creating a Blueprint for Change in the Process from 2023-10-04T00:17
Air Date 10/3/2023
The Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta is the current tip of the spear of the police accountability movement but the instinct ...
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#1585 Workers Rights Ascendent Amid Writers and Actors Strikes in Hollywood and the UAW Strikes Against the Big 3 US Automakers all While the Sociopathic Reality of Capitalism is Laid Bare by CEOs Explain How Exploiting Workers is Intrinsic to the System from 2023-09-26T23:35
Air Date 9/26/2023
Rays of hope for the worker's struggle against unfettered, exploitative capitalism are coming from multiple angles as strikes...
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#1584 Israel's Political Upheaval, Supreme Court Power Struggle, US Support, and the Normalization of Apartheid from 2023-09-24T21:14
Air Date 9/24/2023
Israel's politics have been upended by the return of Netanyahu as Prime Minister, put in office with the help of extremely fa...
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#TBT #1360 Redefine, Unburden and #DefundThePolice: With Copy City renewing debate over policing, we look back at the counterargument (Throwback) from 2023-09-22T19:31
Original Air Date: 8/8/2020
Today we take a look at the concept of defunding the police; what it means, what it doesn't and what the goals of th...
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#1583 Alluring Conspiracy Culture vs Capitalism: The Driving Forces that are Attracting People into Conspiratorial Thinking About Trump, COVID, Economics, Military Affairs and More. from 2023-09-18T23:49
Air Date 9/18/2023
Exploring the captivating world of conspiracy theories! We are all wired to believe misinformation to some degree, but not al...
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#TBT #1190 Island Recovering From Disaster: Hurricane Maria laid bare the colonialism and capitalism in Puerto Rico (Throwback) from 2023-09-16T00:01
Original Air Date: 6/15/2018
The high toll Puerto Rico is paying, in both money and lives, for the triple disasters of colonialism, Hurricane Ma...
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#1582 Maui Fire Sale: Hawaiian Colonization, Disaster Capitalism, and the Climate Crisis Fueling Wildfires and Housing Insecurity in Native Hawaiian Communities on Maui and Beyond from 2023-09-13T22:29
Air Date 9/13/2023
This eye-opening episode will explore the complex web of colonialism, disaster capitalism, and climate change is ravaging Nat...
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#1581 Indicted Authoritarianism Up For Debate: GOP presidential candidates debate the future of the party just in case Donald Trump is found guilty of any of his many crimes and somehow manages to lose the GOP primary or is barred from office. from 2023-09-07T03:24
Air Date 9/6/2023
The first GOP presidential debate happened without the frontrunner, Donald Trump, being present for the event but rather hangi...
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#1580 Bet Your Life: Sports betting is opening new and expensive ways to waste your time and destroy your mental health. The impacts of gambling are straining the legitimacy of sports and how they're reported by ESPN and beyond. from 2023-09-03T20:39
Air Date 9/3/2023
Sports gambling through smartphones has become widely available and wildly addictive but the effects are being felt beyond the...
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#TBT #1152 Rise of the Oligarchs Like the Ones Taking Clarence Thomas on Trips: From the Libertarians of the Chicago School and the Push for Market Fundamentalism to the Megadonors Pulling the Strings of Politicians Today (Money in Politics) (Throwback from 2023-08-31T20:56
Original Air Date: 12/15/2017
The history and current state of rich people seeking to undermine democratic rule by the people in favor of oligarchy ...
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#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment (Repost) from 2023-08-30T03:45
Original Air Date 8/10/2022
Origins of the European colonial land-grab, the need for the #Landback movement, and the benefits to society and th...
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#1504 Neurodiversity is Strength: Autism, ADHD and Beyond (Repost) from 2023-08-27T12:37
Original Air Date 8/2/2022
Explaining neurodiversity and why it should be seen as a strength and benefit to society when accommodated properly r...
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#TBT #1209 How to Debate Your Values: Being part of the solution in an age of hyper-polarization as we enter a new election cycle (Throwback) from 2023-08-25T14:39
Original Air Date 9-11-2018
Strategies to, and reasons why we need to, have better political conversations. As the first GOP debate signals the begi...
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#1579 Positive masculinity is a process. Many boys hear more about what they shouldn't say, how they shouldn't act, but without a strong alternative example which opens the door for the purveyors of toxic masculinity like Andrew Tate to fill the gap. from 2023-08-24T01:49
Air Date 8/23/2023
For decades, we have rightly been focused on dialing back endemic misogyny and poking holes in the patriarchy in the hopes of...
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#1578 A.I. is a big tech airplane with a 10% chance of crashing, should society fly it? ChatGPT was only the starter pistol but it has shown the sloppiness of these companies and the need for regulate artificial intelligence for the public good. from 2023-08-20T17:18
Air Date 8/20/2023
Big tech is currently scrambling to bring untested A.I. products to market, over-promising, under-delivering, and working har...
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#TBT #1323 Maui Fire and Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control (Throwback) from 2023-08-18T02:18
Original Air Date 12-7-2019
In the context of the devastating fire on Maui, we are replaying this throwback episode to look at the reaction to d...
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#1577 Trump's historic third indictment containing three counts of conspiracy and one of obstruction regarding the 2020 election and Jan 6th, 2021 from 2023-08-12T13:00
Air Date 8/12/2023
Today, we take a look at the most consequential case against Trump which summarizes his direct involvement in using allegedly...
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#TBT #1054 What Drives Trump Conservatives - "Strangers in Their Own Land" (Throwback) from 2023-08-10T19:43
Original Air Date 11-1-2016
Today we dive deeply into the world of conservatives as described in the new book “Strangers in their own Land” by Arlie...
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#1499 January 6th Insurrection Hearings (Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie) (Repost) from 2023-08-09T05:00
Original Air Date 6/25/2022
Today we take a look at some of the takeaways from the hearings investigating the January 6th insurrection. Most not...
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#1576 How Florida's education reform works to maintain unjust power imbalances from 2023-08-07T02:41
Air Date 8/6/2023
Today, we take a look at the education curriculum reforms currently being pushed through in Florida through the lens of the lo...
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#1575 Cluster Headache, Matching War Crimes with War Crimes Against Russia in Ukraine from 2023-08-02T17:49
Air Date 8/2/2023
Today, we take a look at the status of the war in Ukraine and the decision made recently for the US to provide cluster bombs t...
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#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy (Repost) from 2023-07-31T02:20
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#TBT #1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement (Throwback) from 2023-07-28T02:18
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#1574 Creative vs Control: Hollywood strikes for livable wages and the future of human creativity from 2023-07-26T03:49
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#1573 Confronting Climate Chaos with Action and Adaptation from 2023-07-22T20:33
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#TBT #1311 Our Culture and Our Economy are Making Us Depressed (Throwback) from 2023-07-19T04:44
Original Air Date: 10/16/2019
Today we take a look at the literally depressing truth about our economy, our work and the culture that surrounds ...
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#1572 Building a circular, sustainable economy for all from 2023-07-16T19:00
Air Date 7/16/2023
Today, we take a look at the problems of overconsumption and some policy solutions for reducing waste through a circular, rat...
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#1571 Understanding what we lost with the repeal of affirmative action from 2023-07-12T03:23
Air Date 7/11/2023
Today, we take a look at the history and unceremonious end of affirmative action for college admissions that were an attempt ...
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#1570 The overpopulation debate is more philosophical than empirical from 2023-07-09T02:37
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#TBT #1155 Leisure, Desperation or a Reorientation (The Future of Work) (Throwback) from 2023-07-07T03:00
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#1569 Winning Progressive Policies with Better Messaging from 2023-07-04T21:33
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#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America (Repost) from 2023-06-28T06:06
Original Air Date 6/11/2022
Today we take a look at the reasons why Democrats lost rural America and why it's important to make gains outside ur...
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#1568 The Shifting Landscape of the Religion-Conservative-Political Complex from 2023-06-25T14:00
Air Date 6/25/2023
Today, we take a look at the state of the religious right as declining religiosity and the looming 2024 election put a strain...
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#TBT #1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) (Throwback) from 2023-06-23T05:24
Original Air Date 2-5-2019
Today we take a look at the history of FDR's "Four Freedoms" and "Economic Bill of Rights" that laid the groundwork f...
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#1567 How to Sell an Immoral Economic System to the Masses from 2023-06-21T05:11
Air Date 6/20/2023
Today, we take a look at the story of how neoliberalism was born, how corporations were organized to help push it into the ma...
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#1482 The New Hotness in Scam Culture (Crypto Currency and NFTs)(Repost) from 2023-06-18T22:00
Original Air Date 4/13/2022
Today we take a look at the mainstreaming of crypto and NFTs by celebrity endorsements, why they're terrible by near...
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#TBT #1333 An Examination of Fear, Anger, Forgiveness and Grace (Also, Mr. Rogers) (Throwback) from 2023-06-15T22:00
Original Air Date 2-2-2020
Today we take a look at the relationship between fear, anger and how to deal with the structural forces of harm in ou...
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#1566 Wrestling with Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism from 2023-06-14T04:16
Air Date 6/13/2023
Today, we take a look at the struggle to act ethically, at least by our own measure if there's not a universally-agreed stand...
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#1565 Co-Housing Builds Community and Fights Loneliness from 2023-06-10T21:00
Air Date 6/10/2023
Today, we take a look at the emerging trend of various community housing styles people are using to build community, fight lo...
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#TBT #1243 The story of Socialism in America (Throwback) from 2023-06-09T00:31
Original Air Date 1-22-2019
Today we take a look at socialism in America from our often violent response to the concept in the wake of the Russian R...
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#1564 How Marketing Has Shaped Our World for the Worse from 2023-06-07T04:13
Air Date 6/6/2023
Today, we take a look at the widespread impact of marketing on culture, consumerism, transportation, food, gender roles, and g...
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#1563 Putting Our Kids to Work for Corporate Profits from 2023-06-04T04:27
Air Date 6/3/2023
Today, we take a look at the dynamics at play between our immigration and labor policies that lead to the exploitation of chil...
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#TBT #1080 Corporate media’s fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump (Throwback) from 2023-05-18T23:06
Original Air Date 2/17/2017
Today we look at the state of the corporate-controlled media in the age of Trump, how you can navigate those murky water...
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#1560 Immigration Crisis: Biden vs. Trump, Undocumented Workers, Anti-Immigrant Hate, Migrant Abuse, and the Economic Fallout of Florida's New Law from 2023-05-17T03:32
Air Date 5/16/2023
Today, we take a look at the current state and deep context for why our immigration and asylum system broken, and why our pol...
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#1559 Company Towns are a Bad Solution to a Real Problem from 2023-05-14T05:29
Air Date 5/13/2023
Today, we take a look at the history and resurgent idea of the company town, sometimes described by other names to obscure th...
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#TBT #1133 Understanding Authoritarianism (Throwback) from 2023-05-11T21:01
Original Air Date 9/15/2017
Today we look at the history and structures of authoritarianism and explore how they relate to the Trump campaign and ad...
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#1558 States of Hate, Right-Wing Legislatures Go Full-Tilt While the Courageous Fight Back from 2023-05-10T04:05
Air Date 5/9/2023
Today, we take a look at the hyper-polarization of our era and the anti-democratic instincts of the right taking hold in state...
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#1557 Tactics and Counter-Tactics of the Struggle for Labor Rights from 2023-05-06T05:12
Air Date 5/5/2023
Today, we take a look at the history and present of the labor movement to demonstrate how times may change but the fundamental...
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#1556 Oil Wealth and Oligarchy, Over 100 Years of Polishing Unredeemable Reputations from 2023-05-02T18:32
Air Date 5/2/2023
Today, we take a look at the intertwining of oil wealth, philanthropy, and culture washing from John Rockefeller to the sheiks...
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#1555 The Kids Are Not Alright (Boys, Girls, Culture and Social Media) from 2023-04-27T04:27
Air Date 4/26/2023
Today, we take a look at the trials and tribulations facing the youth today as men and boys are being surpassed academically ...
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#1554 Destroying Education and Democracy for Fun and Profit from 2023-04-20T04:58
Air Date 4/19/2023
Today, we take a look at the history and present of the interconnected movements to privatize education and dismantle democra...
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#1553 The Nuremberg Trials of J.K. Rowling: Misogyny and Authoritarianism in the Bizarro World from 2023-04-17T00:35
Air Date 4/16/2023
Today, we take a look at some of the arguments of the anti-trans feminist movement, known by its most prominent proponent, J....
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#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful (Repost) from 2023-04-12T22:58
Original Air Date 4/20/2022
Today we take a look at the bizarre halo effect that seems to surround Elon Musk and then thoroughly puncture it by ...
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#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor (Repost) from 2023-04-05T17:20
Original Air Date 4/2/2022
Today we take a look at the modern reality of cyber war. It's not the mass destruction of attacks that were imagined to look like a "Cyber ...
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#1552 Invasion of Iraq, 20 years later from 2023-04-01T01:35
Air Date 3/31/2023
Today, we take a look at the history and legacy of the invasion of Iraq by the United States under George W. Bush and his adm...
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#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting (Repost) from 2023-03-29T20:39
Original Air Date 3/16/2022
Today we take a look at the dynamics of mis- and disinformation as well as the history of those, primarily Russia, w...
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#1551 Making sense of the senseless war in Ukraine from 2023-03-27T00:43
Air Date 3/26/2023
Today, we take a look at the Russian invasion of Ukraine as the debate over continuing to support Ukraine heats up, an arrest...
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#1550 Red States, Where Democracy Goes to Die and Terrible Legislation is Born from 2023-03-22T01:49
Air Date 3/21/2023
Today, we take a look at how GOP-controlled states are subverting democracy with a form of "competitive autocracy" and some of the horrifying legis...
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#1549 Fox News is worse than we imagined or: they all knew they were lying from 2023-03-18T21:55
Air Date 3/18/2023
Today, we take a look at how Fox News is being exposed as the alleged liars-for-pay we always suspected they were by the defamation lawsuit filed b...
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#1548 The War on Woke Pits the GOP Against Their Usual Allies in Big Business from 2023-03-15T01:51
Air Date 3/14/2023
Today, we take a look at the rise of "woke capitalism" as the cudgel now being wielded against any corporations who dare to seek profits by appeali...
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#1547 Shaping the Future of the Internet from 2023-03-09T01:03
Air Date 3/8/2023
Today, we take a look at some of the emerging elements of technology and regulation that will likely shape the next era of the internet and our rela...
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#1546 Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity from 2023-03-04T21:55
Air Date 3/4/2023
Today, we tell a story of colonialism, dispossession and cultural renaissance as a lens through which to understand alienation, a primary condition ...
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#1466 The Faustian Bargain of Technological Advancement and Societal Degradation (Repost) from 2023-03-02T02:07
Original Air Date 1/15/2022
Today we take a look at tradeoffs that are becoming ever more evident between the advancement of mass communication and social media techn...
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#1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress from 2023-02-23T00:45
Air Date 2/22/2023
Today, we take a look at some of the work of the chaotic wrecking crew that is the GOP of the 118th Congress including their plan to hold the world...
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#1544 Block History Month: The Campaign to Erase Uncomfortable Truths About Black History from 2023-02-18T04:14
Air Date 2/17/2023
Today, we take a look at the importance of teaching a full and unflinching version of Black history and why the campaign to block it is reaching a ...
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#1543 Capitalism doesn't live up to the hype from 2023-02-14T23:45
Air Date 2/14/2023
Today, we take a look at some origins, alternatives and misunderstandings of capitalism from the Dutch East India Company, to Adam Smith and up thr...
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#1542 Despair and violence in Israel's illiberal and exclusionary "democracy" from 2023-02-10T22:46
Air Date 2/10/2023
Today, we take a look at the recent rise in tensions in the wake of Israel electing what may be their most right-wing government to date. Literal f...
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#1541 Tear down paradise and put up a dystopian police state (Cop City) from 2023-02-05T23:35
Air Date 2/5/2023
Today, we take a look at the threat to the lives of environment protectors around the world with a special focus on the first environmental activist...
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#1540 The Grift of Life (Scam Culture™ and the Economy it has built) from 2023-02-01T02:15
Air Date 1/31/2023
Today, we take a look at just some of the nearly infinite ways in which our society, culture, and economy are infused from top to bottom with Scam ...
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#1539 Stolen Children is Stolen History, Heritage, and Culture (Indian Child Welfare Act) from 2023-01-25T23:21
Air Date 1/25/2023
Today, we take a look at the long, global history of invading peoples stealing the children of native families to be acculturated into the populati...
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#1538 Authoritarian Coup Attempts Around the World from 2023-01-22T01:03
Air Date 1/21/2023
Today, we take a look beyond our shores to other examples of anti-democratic forces seeking to take control of governments in Germany, Brazil, and ...
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#1461 Neoliberalism is Hanging on for Dear Life in Changing Times (Repost) from 2023-01-18T21:48
Original Air Date 12/15/2021
Today we take a look at the cracks and fissures appearing ever more quickly in the neoliberal order that was already widely criticized be...
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#1537 All Your Faves Were Radicals (Beyond Martin Luther King Jr) from 2023-01-14T21:31
Air Date 1/14/2023
This Martin Luther King Day weekend, we take a look at a wider range of Black radicals who all helped build the unfinished Civil Rights Movement an...
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#1536 Your Food Choices Are Not Your Food Choices from 2023-01-11T15:11
Air Date 1/11/2023
Today, we take a look at the way unscientific guidelines, government subsidies, corporate propaganda, cultural context, capitalism, community stigm...
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#1535 We Don't Do Accountability (Trump and GOP Crimes That Go Unpunished) from 2023-01-07T15:07
Air Date 1/7/2023
Today, we take a look at the criminal charges against Donald Trump that the January 6th Committee has referred to the DOJ but examine them through t...
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#1534 Every Move You Make (Facial Recognition, TikTok, and Surveillance Capitalism 2.0) from 2023-01-03T23:07
Air Date 1/3/2023
Today, we take a look at the emerging implementation of facial recognition technology in public and commercial spaces along with the tracking and "a...
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#1451 The Foxification of American Media (Fox News 25th Anniversary) (Repost) from 2022-12-27T20:00
Original Air Date 10/27/2021
Today we take a look at some of the ways that 25 years of Fox News has reshaped our media and political landscape. Crucially, understandi...
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#1533 How Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran) from 2022-12-24T21:23
Air Date 12/24/2022
Today, we compare the far-right religious extremists who are fighting to gain power in the US with the protests against the theocratic regime in I...
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The Last Resort (The Story of Cal-Exit) from 2022-12-22T18:02
What if California seceded from the United States? If it did, what would happen? Would it usher in a new era of peace and prosperity? Or plunge the US into a new civil war? This is The Last Reso...
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#1532 Accelerationism is the Brick on the Gas Pedal of the Runaway Car of Society from 2022-12-17T23:34:58
Air Date 12/17/2022
Today, we take a look at the fringe philosophy of accelerationism that is having a bigger impact on society than you will likely have realized as ...
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#1531 The Labor Movement is a Hot Mess and Democrats Are Not Much Help from 2022-12-13T22:59:10
Air Date 12/13/2022
Today, we take a look at the labor dispute within our freight rail industry as well as other unionization fights that corporations are vehemently ...
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#1454 The Problem with Facebook is Facebook (Repost) from 2022-12-11T02:18:58
Original Air Date 11/9/2021
Today we take a look at the Facebook business model that is driving hate, lies, violence, extremism, and the breakdown of democracy around...
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#1530 The Pillars of Polarization and Persuasion from 2022-12-07T02:26:20
Air Date 12/6/2022
Today, we take a look at some of the factors driving hyper-partisanship in the US right now along with multiple arguments to not give up on the pow...
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#1529 Monopolies Run By Morons from 2022-12-04T00:24:10
Air Date 12/3/2022
Today, we take a look at the mega-companies that touch all of our lives and the monopolistic practices that have been developed to keep power and w...
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#1528 The Ugly Underbelly of The Beautiful Game (Qatar World Cup) from 2022-12-01T01:49:57
Air Date 11/30/2022
Today, we take a look at the context of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar including the labor abuses endemic in the construction of the facilities, the ...
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#1230 Thanksgiving and cultural heritage (Repost) from 2022-11-26T21:15:35
Original Air Date 11/27/2018
Today we take a look at the literal and figurative bloody messes of the history of Thanksgiving and the identities of native peoples. Thi...
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#1527 Making Antisemitism Great Again with Ye, Kyrie Irving and Dave Chapelle from 2022-11-23T03:50:52
Air Date 11/22/2022
Today, we take a look at three recent incidents of celebrities using their platforms to spread antisemitic tropes all in the context of greater op...
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#1265 Moving beyond tragedy by surviving and adapting (Repost) from 2022-11-20T02:52:30
Original Air Date 4/16/2019
Today we take a look at just a few of the aspects of modern life for Native Peoples that we can see as stemming from the racism and coloni...
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#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US from 2022-11-16T03:40:12
Air Date 11/15/2022
Today, we take a look at our extremely steady history of political violence from the Revolution, through the Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Cro...
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#1525 Don't Panic: Irrational Fear and Panic in the US from 2022-11-13T04:26:41
Air Date 11/12/2022
Today, we take a look at a few types of panic that regularly strike within communities or across the nation including various satanic panics, Hall...
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#1524 An Historic, World-Shaping Election, Of Sorts (China, Xi Jinping) from 2022-11-09T01:07:47
Air Date 11/8/2022
Today, we take a look at the life and times of China's president, Xi Jinping, and his rise to be China's first non-term-limited president who also,...
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#1523 Pocketbook Pain and Corporate Profits from 2022-11-01T23:06:34
Air Date 11/1/2022
Today, we take a look at the corporate price-gouging and massive profits happening under the cover of widespread inflation, all in the run-up to th...
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#1522 An extremist cult conspired to destroy the United Kingdom from within from 2022-10-29T14:52:14
Air Date 10/29/2022
Today, we take a look at the destruction accomplished over decades by adherents to a libertarian, neoliberal ideology in the UK which culminated r...
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#1521 The election of a lifetime for this year from 2022-10-26T19:39:41
Air Date 10/26/2022
Today, we take a look at the 2022 election and the political dynamics at play as the GOP continues on its path of ideological anti-democracy and D...
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#1440 The Physical Structures of Structural Racism and the Fight for Environmental Justice (Repost) from 2022-10-21T18:00
Original Air Date 9/8/2021
Today we take a look at the legacy of red-lining, the building and subsequent destruction of Black communities and the health and environme...
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#1435 A History of White Violence in Policy and Practice (Repost) from 2022-10-18T18:00
Original Air Date 8/18/2021
Today we take a look at history of white people deciding to get their way through violence and the tradition of having the government look...
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#1520 Demanding Rights for Women in Iran from 2022-10-14T18:00
Air Date 10/14/2022
Today, we take a look at the women-led protests roiling Iran in response to violent crackdowns from the so-called morality police that have led to...
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#1447 Settler Colonialist Structures Around the World (Repost) from 2022-10-11T13:29:08
Original Air Date 10/9/2021
Today we take a look at structures and specifics of settler colonialism from around the world including the US, Caribbean, Australia, Isra...
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#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move from 2022-10-08T21:00
Air Date 10/8/2022
Today, we take a look at the recent elections in Italy, Brazil and Sweden where far-right parties are either taking power or looking to maintain it...
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#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad from 2022-10-05T16:49:21
Air Date 10/5/2022
Today, we take a look at the life and legacy of President Ronald Reagan, the last transformational U.S. president who's regime we are still living ...
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#1517 Reverse Freedom Rides (Human Trafficking Asylum Seekers) from 2022-10-01T02:00
Air Date 9/30/2022
Today, we take a look at the attention-grabbing stunt of transporting asylum seekers from Texas to Martha's Vineyard and other politically-liberal ...
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#1516 The Clean-Up Crew (The System of Activist Judges Defending Trump) from 2022-09-24T22:46:11
Air Date 9/24/2022
Today, we take a look at the decades-long scheme to funnel conservative activist judges into the judiciary to support Republican policy goals and t...
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#1515 Set the Sun on the British Empire (Queen Elizabeth II) from 2022-09-21T19:23:39
Air Date 9/21/2022
Today, we take a look at the history and legacy of British imperialism and slavery through the lens of the divergent views on the passing of Queen ...
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#1514 Creating a Digital World of our Worst Habits from 2022-09-17T17:00
Air Date 9/17/2022
Today, we take a look at the way terrible patterns of the past like colonialism, racism, propaganda, feudalism, and abuse of corporate monopoly pow...
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#1513 The Morality of Debt and Forgiveness from 2022-09-14T21:35:56
Air Date 9/14/2022
Today, we take a look at the history and hysteria behind debt and debt forgiveness while Biden is canceling student debt and opponents of the idea ...
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#1512 Ownership and Rights in a Digital World from 2022-09-09T22:54:02
Air Date 9/9/2022
Today, we take a look at platforms, goods, and business models in the modern landscape of the digital marketplace. We start by questioning the moral...
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#1511 Economic Underclass, Political Pawns (Immigration and Asylum Seeking) from 2022-09-06T20:06:22
Air Date 9/6/2022
Today, we take a look at the precarious state of our immigration and asylum system, the legacy of neoliberalism and imperialism in South and Central...
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#1436 The Long Legacy of Making Deals with the Devil (Bipartisanship) (Repost) from 2022-09-04T09:14:16
Original Air Date 8/21/2021
Today we take a look at the history of bipartisanship and appeasement in the US dating back to before the Civil War and tracking it all th...
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#1510 Avoiding Accountability from 2022-08-31T23:57:07
Air Date 8/31/2022
Today, as we wait to see if Trump will ever be indicted for any of his many, many, many crimes, we take a look at the long and illustrious history ...
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#1509 Preparing for the next proxy-war (China and Taiwan) from 2022-08-27T12:20:43
Air Date 8/27/2022
Today, we take a look at the tensions between China and Taiwan, the tensions between China and the U.S. vis-a-vis Taiwan, the tensions between Russ...
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#1508 On the Questionable Usefulness and Longevity of NATO from 2022-08-20T23:33:06
Air Date 8/20/2022
Today, we take a look at the history of NATO and its role in the world after the fall of the Soviet Union which has come back into focus due to the...
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#1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress from 2022-08-16T22:51:23
Air Date 8/16/2022
Today, we take a look at the strategies underway to systematically dismantle democracy in the United States including installing Big-Lie™ believers...
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#1433 The legacy of White Supremacy in schools, health care and public pools (Repost) from 2022-08-13T20:03:45
Original Air Date 8/10/2021
Today we take a look at the mechanisms by which the legacy of White Supremacy is harmful to the health and wellbeing of individuals and so...
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#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment from 2022-08-10T14:21:15
Air Date 8/10/2022
Today, we take a look at the origins of the European colonial land-grab, the need for the #Landback movement, <...
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#1505 The Largest Investment in Climate Mitigation in US History from 2022-08-05T19:17:22
Air Date 8/5/2022
Today, we take a look at the politics of energy and climate in a world addicted to fossil fuels but full of people striving to push us past the tipp...
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#1504 Neurodiversity is Strength from 2022-08-02T20:41:06
Air Date 8/2/2022
Today, we take a look at what neurodiversity is and why it should be seen as a strength and benefit to society when accommodated properly rather tha...
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#1422 Teach No Evil, Protest No Evil, Vote Not At All (Repost) from 2022-07-30T11:03:22
Original Air Date 6/9/2021
Today we take a look at the motivations behind legislation being introduced in statehouses around the country to ban the teaching of Critic...
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#1503 The Supremely Extreme Court from 2022-07-26T19:20:59
Air Date 7/26/2022
Today, we take a look at recent Supreme Court rulings aside from overturning abortion rights and how all signals are that they are going full steam...
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#1502 Conflict, Climate, Capitalism and Famine from 2022-07-22T18:56:47
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Bonus Edition #203 The Fog of Work (Repost) from 2022-07-17T14:25:18
Original Air Date 4/16/2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss a few of the aspects of life during a pandemic that's causing mental fog and affecting our work.
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#1501 Navigating Post-Roe America from 2022-07-13T12:39:13
Air Date 7/13/2022
Today, we take a look at how the Supreme Court stripped abortion rights for half the country, what life will look like for those seeking abortions ...
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#1500 America, A Beginner's Guide from 2022-07-04T21:46:08
Air Date 7/4/2022
Today, for this milestone episode, I attempted to squeeze in as many clever and interesting ideas as I could and ended up writing a starter guide to...
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#1424 Fighting with at least two hands tied (Conservative Democrats Manchin and Sinema) (Repost) from 2022-07-02T21:52:29
Original Air Date 6/19/2021
Today we take a look at the politics of obstruction in service to big donors' interests while sacrificing the ability to run a functioning...
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#1287 Mitch McConnell is the Forking Worst (Reposted) from 2022-06-28T20:37:56
Original Air Date 7/5/2019
Today we take an unflinching look at Mitch McConnell and what a bad, bad man he is for basically all of the reasons.
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#1499 Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie (January 6th Insurrection Hearings) from 2022-06-25T20:52:36
Air Date 6/25/2022
Today we take a look at some of the takeaways from the hearings investigating the January 6th insurrection. Most notably: they knew, they knew, the...
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#1498 Pride and Prejudice from 2022-06-22T20:00:27
Air Date 6/22/2022
Today we take a look at the complicated evolution of Pride Month in an era of much greater LGBTQ acceptance and the simultaneous resurgence of anti...
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#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy from 2022-06-17T19:04:18
Air Date 6/17/2022
Today we take a look at many intertwining realizations that are beginning to permeate society which include but are not limited to the dead-end men...
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#1496 Home Is Where The Hardship Is (Housing Crisis) from 2022-06-15T11:59:08
Air Date 6/15/2022
Today we take a look at the many reasons why we are experiencing a housing crisis in the US and beyond but it mostly comes down to treating housing...
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#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America from 2022-06-11T14:29:07
Air Date 6/11/2022
Today we take a look at the reasons why Democrats lost rural America and why it's important to make gains outside urban centers through working-cla...
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#1494 Progressives and the Primaries from 2022-06-08T18:03:05
Air Date 6/8/2022
Today we take a look at progressive victories in primary elections around the country and explain why moderates are not much more than allies of con...
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#1493 Marketing, Messaging and Mass Shootings from 2022-06-04T09:44:48
Air Date 6/4/2022
Today we take a look at some of the obvious steps we need to take to reduce gun violence in the United States, debunk some of the favored propaganda...
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#1492 The Great Replacements (Conspiracy vs Reality) from 2022-06-01T20:17:13
Air Date 6/1/2022
Today we take a look at the current conspiracy theory known as "The Great Replacement" which posits that a cabal of elites is conspiring to eradicat...
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#1491 Mismanaging Capitalism Can Lead to Fascism (Inflation and the Working Class) from 2022-05-27T16:06:53
Air Date 5/27/2022
Today we take a look at the disruptions to society that can unfold in times of economic distress such as high inflation, price gouging, wage stagna...
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#1416 The Disneyfication of Our Past, Present and Future (Repost) from 2022-05-21T00:00
Original Air Date 5/8/2021
Today we take a look at the culture that Disney has helped create and how they did it, using cuteness as a weapon to push ideas from racist...
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#1411 Our Democracy is Filibusted, Time to Kill the Filibuster (Repost) from 2022-05-17T19:00
Original Air Date 4/14/2021
Today we take a look at the one element of our government that, above all others, has contributed to the absolute disfunction of our democ...
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#1490 What To Do As We Enter A Post-Roe World from 2022-05-14T08:15:56
Air Date 5/14/2022
Today we take a look at the options and actions still available after the Supreme Court overturns Roe for those seeking abortions and Reproductive ...
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#1489 Journalism, Social Media and the Billionaire Business Model from 2022-05-10T18:08:48
Air Date 5/10/2022
Today we take a look at the impacts of media ownership on society including legacy newspapers and social media platforms owned by billionaires and ...
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#1488 Seeking Approval from the GOP Fringe is Making Them Mainstream from 2022-05-07T16:17:08
Air Date 5/7/2022
Today we take a look at the jockeying for position that is happening among GOP politicians, both incumbents and hopefuls, in this murky Trump/post-T...
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#1487 Oceans Rise, Empires Fall (The Coming New World Order) from 2022-05-04T18:40:19
Air Date 5/4/2022
Today we take a look at the tectonic shifts in the geopolitics happening under our feet; the long, slow decline of the US empire and the neoliberal ...
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#1486 Unionizing is a Labor of Love from 2022-04-29T20:28:11
Air Date 4/29/2022
Today we take a look at the rising wave of successful unionization efforts and the corporate tactics being leveled against them, including the prop...
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Will Be Wild, a Deep Dive into January 6th from 2022-04-26T16:00:09
From critically acclaimed podcast studios Pineapple Street and Wondery comes a new 8-part series called Will Be Wild that shines a light on the human stories left out of the headlines. It goes d...
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#1485 The Politics We Have, The Politics We Need (Socializing the Oil Industry) from 2022-04-23T17:34:35
Air Date 4/23/2022
Today we take a look at how we got to the form of toothless liberalism we are living with today and begin to reimagine what a more muscular state a...
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#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful from 2022-04-20T20:38:54
Air Date 4/20/2022
Today we take a look at the bizarre halo effect that seems to surround Elon Musk and then thoroughly puncture it by just explaining a few things ab...
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#1483 Coming Catastrophe at the Supreme Court from 2022-04-16T21:43:23
Air Date 4/16/2022
Today we take a look at the coming wave of attacks on abortion and the foundational concept of privacy more broadly that are making their way to th...
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#1482 The New Hotness in Scam Culture (Crypto Currency and NFTs) from 2022-04-13T23:18:50
Air Date 4/13/2022
Today we take a look at the mainstreaming of crypto and NFTs by celebrity endorsements, why they're terrible by nearly any metric and why they are ...
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#1481 A New Voice of Dissent on the Supreme Court (Ketanji Brown Jackson) from 2022-04-07T00:05:41
Air Date 4/6/2022
Today we take a look at the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, what her confirmation would mean for representation on t...
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#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor from 2022-04-02T12:01:38
Air Date 4/2/2022
Today we take a look at the current iteration of the cynical culture wars being waged by conservative Republicans against LGBTQ kids for political g...
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#1479 Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights) from 2022-03-29T21:16:30
Air Date 3/29/2022
Today we take a look at the current iteration of the cynical culture wars being waged by conservative Republicans against LGBTQ kids for political gain. T...
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#1478 Refugees, Borders, War, and the Climate Crisis from 2022-03-24T14:23:09
Air Date 3/24/2022
Today we take a look at the desperate state of refugees fleeing war, strife and climate disruption as well as the response of governments around th...
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#1477 The Plot Against America from 2022-03-19T13:18:48
Air Date 3/19/2022
Today we take a look at the details of the planned coup that had its culmination in the form of a violent insurrection at the US Capitol Building on Janua...
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#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting from 2022-03-16T19:55:22
Air Date 3/16/2022
Today we take a look at the dynamics of mis- and disinformation as well as the history of those, primarily Russia, who are actively using it as a w...
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#1475 Fossil Fueled War from 2022-03-11T17:14:26
Air Date 3/11/2022
Today we take a look at the intertwining oil interests that underlie many of the decisions about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how others are re...
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#1403 The American Empire Gets a Reboot (Foreign Policy Under Biden) (Repost) from 2022-03-09T20:26:13
Original Air Date 3/10/2021
Today we take a look at the current goings-on around the world regarding our foreign policy under the new but not-so-new-feeling leadershi...
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#1474 Invasion of Ukraine: Some Context from 2022-03-04T21:00:12
Air Date 3/4/2022
Today we take a look at the history of Ukraine as a Soviet state, war-torn state, famished state, westernizing state, energy-exploring state, annexe...
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#1473 How the GOP Became a Radicalized Strongman Cult from 2022-03-02T20:22:49
Air Date 3/2/2022
Today we take a look at the not-so-slow transformation of Republicans from a Bush/McCain/Romney party to a Trump/DeSantis/Putin party complete with ...
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#1472 Some, but not enough, progress on gun violence in America from 2022-02-26T17:00:27
Air Date 2/26/2022
Today we take a look at the slow but important progress that's been made in the last ten years of efforts toward sensible gun control and accountab...
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#1471 Taking Delight In Chaos (Trucker Protests Go International) from 2022-02-23T09:36:55
Air Date 2/22/2022
Today we take a look at the new right-wing protest tactic sweeping the world, truck convoy siege tactics in capital cities. Their causes are nonsen...
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#1399 Myths are written by the victors, history by the scholars (1619 vs 1776) (Repost) from 2022-02-18T16:00:36
Original Air Date 2/16/2021
Today we take a look at the competing histories fighting for dominance in the minds of Americans; the mythologized and romanticized histor...
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#1396 The Platforms of Our Discontent (Social Media, Social Destruction) (Repost) from 2022-02-15T16:00:41
Original Air Date 2/5/2021
Today we take a look at the role that social media plays in the radicalization of discontented communities and engage in the debate over co...
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#1470 Distorting History and Banning Books is a Power Play of Exclusion from 2022-02-12T09:57:05
Air Date 2/12/2022
Today we take a look at the recent uptick in banning and removing educational subjects and books from school curricula as well as specifically who ...
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#1469 Geopolitical Brinksmanship Rekindling The Cold War (Ukraine Crisis) from 2022-02-09T21:10:08
Air Date 2/9/2022
Today we take a look at the simmering geopolitical crisis in Ukraine as Russia amasses military forces along the border. In particular, we hear from...
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#1468 Winning battles against the forces of neoliberalism around the world from 2022-02-05T12:33:55
Air Date 2/4/2022
Today we take a look at several vignettes of recent victories against conservative governments implementing exploitative, neoliberal policies that i...
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#1467 No One Asked For The Next Big Thing (Metaverse) from 2022-01-31T19:44
Air Date 1/31/2022
Today we take a look at the new buzz around the "metaverse" and why it is not only fairly dystopian in and of itself but also seems to require that...
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#1394 White Terrorism and Willful Ignorance (Repost) from 2022-01-25T19:48:22
Original Air Date 1/26/2021
Today we take a look at our long history of ignoring domestic, right-wing terrorism from the Oklahoma City bombing through to the predicta...
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#1391 The Road to Sedition (Repost) from 2022-01-19T21:19
Original Air Date 1/10/2021
Today, in our 15th-anniversary episode, we take a look at the years and years of warning signs we have been highlighting since 2006 that c...
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#1466 The Faustian Bargain of Technological Advancement and Societal Degradation (Audio Fixed) from 2022-01-15T16:47:12
Air Date 1/15/2022
Today we take a look at tradeoffs that are becoming ever more evident between the advancement of mass communication and social media technologies a...
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#1465 Epidemic of Patent Protection and Propaganda from 2022-01-09T17:50:14
Air Date 1/9/2022
Today we take a look at a few of the recent failures and challenges facing the Democratic Party in the face of an oncoming wave of anti-democratic f...
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#1464 Fighting to Preserve Democracy With Only Democrats to Turn To from 2022-01-06T01:39:53
Air Date 1/5/2022
Today we take a look at a few of the recent failures and challenges facing the Democratic Party in the face of an oncoming wave of anti-democratic f...
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#1402 Racism or Classism? Caste Explains that it is Both (Repost) from 2021-12-31T14:00
Original Air Date 3/6/2021
Today we take a look at the origins of race and the building of a caste system in the US based largely on the lessons from Isabel Wilkerson, au...
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#1387 Hyper-Partisanship is Baked Into the System, Not a Result of Bad Actors (Repost) from 2021-12-28T23:26:12
Original Air Date 12/15/2020
Today we take a look at the current state of hyper-partisanship and its origins. The system seems broken because it is broken and it was ...
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#1390 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Our Second Founding (Reconstruction) (Repost) from 2021-12-25T22:00
Original Air Date 1/5/2021
Today we take a look at the often-overlooked decade of Reconstruction in the wake of the Civil War. After hundreds of yea...
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#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions from 2021-12-23T03:32:20
Air Date 12/22/2021
Today we take a look at some of the history of labor struggles in America and the current wave of strikes that is giving renewed energy to the lab...
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Bonus Sample: Mighty White from 2021-12-21T21:45:11
Original Air Date: 12-7-21
Today, I am joined by Amanda, Erin and Deon to discuss:
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#1462 There Will Be No Reichstag Fire from 2021-12-18T20:03:22
Air Date 12/18/2021
Today we take a look at the roadmap to authoritarianism we are currently following including the detailed and multifaceted roadmap to a coup that ...
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#1461 Neoliberalism is Hanging on for Dear Life in Changing Times from 2021-12-16T03:50:41
Air Date 12/15/2021
Today we take a look at the cracks and fissures appearing ever more quickly in the neoliberal order that was already widely criticized before the ...
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Year-End Membership Drive! Get our super-limited edition wallpaper! from 2021-12-15T01:17:27
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#1460 The Growing Threat of Minority Rule from 2021-12-12T19:06:49
Air Date 12/12/2021
Today we take a look at the many structures of American government that tilt to favor minority rule and conservatism which, in our case, is one an...
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#1459 Disability Is Not Merely Physical or Mental But Is Also Social from 2021-12-09T03:53:37
Air Date 12/8/2021
Today we take a look at the state of disability rights and reexamine what we thought we knew about what it means to be disabled in a society that i...
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Bonus Sample #242 It's Always the Season for Male Supremacy from 2021-12-07T17:54:04
#1458 White Supremacy on Trial (Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Arbery Murder, Charlottesville Nazis) from 2021-12-03T03:35:55
Air Date 12/2/2021
Today we take a look at the state of White Supremacy in the US through the lens of three recent trials; Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal for his role i...
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#1385 The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives (Repost) from 2021-11-28T22:58:27
Original Air Date 12/09/2020
Today we take a look in real-time at the construction of the world's newest Lost Cause narrative, the failed re-election of Donald Trump....
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#1457 GOP Authoritarianism Will Likely To Get Worse Before It Gets Better from 2021-11-25T05:55:29
Air Date 11/24/2021
Today we take a look at the state of the ever-increasingly authoritarian Republican Party as they hack the media by being too terrible to hold to ...
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#1456 Capitalism and Colonialism vs Climate Progress from 2021-11-20T22:19:12
Air Date 11/20/2021
Today we take a look at the state of international climate negotiations and the intersection of capitalism and colonialism in the role of indigeno...
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#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America (Repost) from 2021-11-16T23:26:02
Original Air Date 11/10/2020
Today we take a look at the long and shifting history of the myth of democracy in America. We've never had it since the beginning but the...
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#1455 How to End Homelessness from 2021-11-13T17:23:45
Air Date 11/12/2021
Today we take a look at the current state of homelessness in America and the best solution we currently know of to tackle the problem. Surprisingl...
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#1454 The Problem with Facebook is Facebook from 2021-11-10T07:04:01
Air Date 11/9/2021
Today we take a look at the Facebook business model that is driving hate, lies, violence, extremism, and the breakdown of democracy around the worl...
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Bonus Edition: Playing With Children from 2021-11-08T23:05:54
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#1453 The Tea Party Too (School Board Backlash and the Dark Money Behind It) from 2021-11-06T20:39:27
Air Date 11/6/2021
Today we take a look at the raucous school board meetings where parents have been expressing their displeasure with protecting one another from a d...
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#1452 Worked to Death: Pandemics Expose the Power of Labor from 2021-11-04T01:29:53
Air Date 11/3/2021
Today we take a look at the current wave of strikes and labor movements through the lens of pandemic economics and the history of businesses abuse ...
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#1376 Tell Stories, Not Myths: America is a Force But Not Always For Good (Repost + Bonus Clips) from 2021-10-31T04:55:08
Air Date 10/21/2020
Today we take a look at some of the many zany foreign misadventures the United States has had over the past 100 years. And by "zany misadventures"...
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#1451 The Foxification of American Media (Fox News 25th Anniversary) from 2021-10-28T04:57:06
Air Date 10/27/2021
Today we take a look at some of the ways that 25 years of Fox News has reshaped our media and political landscape. Crucially, understanding Fox is...
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#1450 Tax the Mother-Forking Rich (Pandora Papers and other Financial Tricks) from 2021-10-23T15:34:54
Air Date 10/23/2021
Today we take a look at a few of the ways that enormous corporate and personal and family wealth is being hidden around the world, most prominentl...
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Bonus Sample #239 You probably need a therapist from 2021-10-22T01:51:46
#1449 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, 2Spirit and Relatives (MMIWG2S+) from 2021-10-20T18:33:06
Air Date 10/20/2021
Today we take a look at the flip side of the so-called "Missing White Woman Syndrome" and highlight the structural legacies of colonialism that ha...
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#1448 Pillars of Copaganda and the Lies We Are Told About Police from 2021-10-17T00:41:46
Air Date 10/16/2021
Today we take a look at some of the structures of "copaganda," from misreported stats and coverups to propagandistic opinion articles and police p...
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#1374 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Columbus and the Centrality of Colonialism (Repost + Bonus Clips) from 2021-10-13T03:34:12
Air Date 10/13/2020
Today we take a look at the myths of Columbus and American Exceptionalism™ that we cling to and turn our gaze to some of the less-understood but m...
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#1447 Settler Colonialist Structures Around the World from 2021-10-10T04:04:22
Air Date 10/9/2021
Today we take a look at structures and specifics of settler colonialism from around the world including the US, Caribbean, Australia, Israel and Me...
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#1446 Occupy Wall Street is Part of a Very Long Continuum from 2021-10-07T02:43:53
Air Date 10/6/2021
Today we take a look at what precipitated Occupy Wall Street and the legacy it left behind as we can see it now from 10 years after the encampment ...
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Bonus Sample: You Probably Need an Exorcism from 2021-10-03T14:08:12
#1445 A Crisis For Haitians, Not the US, on the Border from 2021-09-30T04:09:41
Air Date 9/29/2021
Today we take a look at the so-called "crisis" on the border involving Haitians attempting to cross into the United States. Some say it's a crisis ...
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#1444 The Ongoing Coup and Other Ways to Destroy Democracy from 2021-09-26T05:09:35
Air Date 9/25/2021
Today we take a look at the continuing efforts of Trump and his supporters to subvert and ultimately destroy democracy through conspiracy theories,...
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#1443 Legacies of 9/11: War on Terror, Islamophobia and Conspiracy Theories from 2021-09-22T02:59:05
Air Date 9/21/2021
Today we take a look at the parallel legacies of 9/11 including the war on terror and military spending, the casual acceptance of Islamophobia, the...
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#1442 Health, Race, Class, Gender and Gaslighting at Work (Texas Abortion Law and SOCTUS) from 2021-09-18T12:00
Air Date 9/18/2021
Today we take a look at the new Texas abortion restrictions and the response from the Supreme Court along with lots of contextualizing commentary t...
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#1373 Post-Roe: The Next Phase in the Fight for Reproductive Justice (Repost) from 2021-09-15T23:47:25
Air Date 10/09/2020
Today we take a look at the future of abortion rights and the broader reproductive justice movement in the face of a conservative super-majority o...
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Bonus Sample: Constant Vigilance! from 2021-09-14T23:03:23
Original Air Date: 9-1-21
Today, I am joined by Amanda, Erin and Deon to discuss:
- How dynastic billionaires are destroying democracy
- The mass psychosis ...
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#1441 There is Nothing New About Right-Wing Extremist Violence from 2021-09-11T12:00
Air Date 9/11/2021
Today we dig through the archives to give deeper context to the current wave of right-wing extremists threatening violence against the government, ...
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#1440 The Physical Structures of Structural Racism and the Fight for Environmental Justice from 2021-09-08T14:52:14
Air Date 9/8/2021
Today we take a look at the legacy of red-lining, the building and subsequent destruction of Black communities and the health and environmental impa...
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#1439 Power, Policies and Prejudice in a World of Refugees from 2021-09-04T16:25:20
Air Date 9/4/2021
Today we take a look at the slow motion disaster that is the worldwide refugee crisis. We start with the recent focus on Afghan refugees fleeing the...
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#1366 The Great Unhousing of America (Repost) from 2021-09-01T19:48:35
Air Date 9/11/2020
Today we take a look at the easily predictable, yet growing, eviction crisis in America that is entirely thanks to a political and economic system ...
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#1438 Afghanistan: Where We Go From Here from 2021-08-28T11:00
Air Date 8/28/2021
Today we take a look at our departure from Afghanistan, how the decisions were made to leave in this fashion and what we should go going forward to...
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#1437 Afghanistan: The Long Road to Now (Remix) from 2021-08-25T19:47:32
Air Date 8/25/2021
Today we take a look at the history of the war in Afghanistan. First of all, do you think that it's been going on for 20 years? Think again, it's b...
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#1436 The Long Legacy of Making Deals with the Devil (Bipartisanship) from 2021-08-21T12:00
Air Date 8/21/2021
Today we take a look at the history of bipartisanship and appeasement in the US dating back to before the Civil War and tracking it all the way up ...
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#1435 A History of White Violence in Policy and Practice from 2021-08-19T02:07:42
Air Date 8/18/2021
Today we take a look at history of white people deciding to get their way through violence and the tradition of having the government look the othe...
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#1434 Confronting Climate Chaos Through Time (Remix) from 2021-08-13T14:00
Air Date 8/13/2021
Today we dig through the archives to give context to the news of the 2021 IPCC report ringing the alarm bells for the climate crisis
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#1433 The legacy of White Supremacy in schools, health care and public pools from 2021-08-10T12:00
Air Date 8/10/2021
Today we take a look at the mechanisms by which the legacy of White Supremacy is harmful to the health and wellbeing of individuals and society as ...
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#1305 How to Build an Empire (A History of American Expansion) (Repost) from 2021-08-07T12:00
Air Date 9/13/2019
Today we take a look at the history and the process of the building of an American empire that currently spans the globe but allows as few people o...
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#1357 What Trump is Invoking When He Invokes Manifest Destiny (Repost) from 2021-08-04T13:45:41
Air Date 7/10/2020
Today we take a look at the origins and legacy of Manifest Destiny, the historical term most closely tied to our most toxic version of nostalgia: t...
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#1432 Wishing Cuba well in one breath, enforcing the embargo in the next from 2021-08-01T23:48:30
Air Date 8/1/2021
Today we take a look at the anti-government protests in Cuba in the context of decades of anti-communist propaganda in the US and our punishing emba...
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#1431 Stealing Native Children and Their Future (Residential Schools) from 2021-07-29T02:44:49
Air Date 7/28/2021
Today we take a look at the legacy of residential schools for native children in the US and Canada. We hear some of the voices of victims, from tho...
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#1430 Abortion laws are changing and so is how we talk about it from 2021-07-24T03:15:37
Air Date 7/24/2021
Today we take a look at the messaging wars over abortion and reproductive justice more broadly as well as the politics of supporting full abortion ...
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#1334 Your Life Will Have Been What You Paid Attention To (Attention Economy) (Repost) from 2021-07-22T02:24:57
Air Date 2/4/2020
Today we take a look at the past, present and future of behavior modification from worms to pigeons to prisoners, and finally, internet users.<...
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Bonus Sample: Even Nazis Want to do a War Dance from 2021-07-16T12:00
Air Date: 7-2-21
Today, I am joined by Amanda, Erin and Deon to discuss:
- Why the right wing, and many others, fetishize native tribes in the US
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#1429 The Grit, Glory and Gaslighting of the Olympic Games from 2021-07-14T00:04:07
Air Date 7/13/2021
Today we take a look at the costs of the Olympic Games including financial, ethical, moral and social. Private profits come at the hands of public ...
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#1361 Building a Better System of Justice (Repost) from 2021-07-10T18:49:34
Air Date 8/12/2020
Today we take a look at Restorative Justice as an antidote to a wide range of injustices we face, from mass incarceration to having a toddler throw...
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#1428 Labor Shortages and the War to Keep Wages Low and Profits High from 2021-07-07T20:07:26
Air Date 7/6/2021
Today we take a look at the talking points and policy pushes that have kept wages in America artificially low for decades. The circumstances today a...
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Bonus: Justifications rather than justice from 2021-07-03T01:05:42
Air Date: 6-17-21
Today, I am joined by Amanda, Erin and Deon to discuss:
- Exploitation of the poor carefully explained away
- Increasing wealth of the ung...
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#1427 The Consequences of Everyday Racism from 2021-06-30T02:44:17
Air Date 6/29/2021
Today we take a look at racism on a more personal level than usual with a focus on individual lived experiences that still speak to the systemic na...
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#1426 The Liberation and Assimilation of Pride Month from 2021-06-27T02:23:31
Air Date 6/26/2021
Today we take a look at the mainstreaming of Pride in recent decades and what that is doing to the liberatory origins of the Pride movement. Corpor...
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#1425 Remembering and Learning from History (Tulsa Massacre and Juneteenth) from 2021-06-24T00:27:16
Air Date 6/23/2021
Today we take a look at the purposeful effort to erase the history of anti-Black terrorism in America and the renewed efforts expose our true histo...
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#1424 Fighting with at least two hands tied (Conservative Democrats Manchin and Sinema) from 2021-06-19T15:59:53
Air Date 6/19/2021
Today we take a look at the politics of obstruction in service to big donors' interests while sacrificing the ability to run a functioning democrac...
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Value: Health Insurance companies and Surveillance Capitalism from 2021-06-16T00:18:27
Do you feel valued by your health insurance company? Because they are definitely working to extract as much value out of you as they can.
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#1423 A Microcosm of our Broken Society (Sports) from 2021-06-12T17:00
Air Date 6/12/2021
Today we take a look at the politics of sports including racism, sexism, capitalism, media and mental health. So, pretty much just like regular pol...
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#1422 Teach No Evil, Protest No Evil, Vote Not At All from 2021-06-10T03:34:29
Air Date 6/9/2021
Today we take a look at the motivations behind legislation being introduced in statehouses around the country to ban the teaching of Critical Race T...
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#1421 The Rise of China and the Freak Out of the West from 2021-06-07T01:31:39
Air Date 6/6/2021
Today we take a look at the tensions building between the US and China with an emphasis on understanding the context in which China has grown from a...
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#1420 Alexa Is Not Your Friend (Digital vs Democratic Futures) from 2021-06-02T00:56:20
Air Date 6/1/2021
Today we take a look at the world of surveillance capitalism and the current age of techno-optimism that is just the newest iteration of the age-old...
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#1286 The Rise of Christian Nationalism (Repost) from 2021-05-29T23:47:52
Air Date 7/2/2019
Today we take a look at the ways in which Christians are being rallied to see themselves as the true victimized minority in America, a key component...
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#1419 Losing support for the indefensible (Israel and Palestine) from 2021-05-26T03:44:32
Air Date 5/25/2021
Today we take a look through a wide-angle lens at the current flareup of the conflict in Israel and Palestine including a discussion of disparate p...
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#1418 The morality test of the COVID age (Vaccine Distribution) from 2021-05-22T15:52:18
Air Date 5/22/2021
Today we take a look at the global struggle to acquire and distribute sufficient doses of vaccine in an effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. It ...
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#1417 Afghanistan, The 20-year War from 2021-05-19T11:30
Air Date 5/18/2021
Today we take a look at the potential of the end of American involvement in the war in Afghanistan as well as some of our recent actions related to...
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#1358 How A System Of Power Defends Itself, A Case Study (Repost) from 2021-05-14T21:58:04
Air Date 7/20/2020
Systems maintain themselves through the efforts of many moving parts that need not understand their roles in maintaining the system as a whole, onl...
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Sample Bonus Edition: Just don't make me think, I have to get to work. from 2021-05-12T01:38:05
Air Date: 5-11-21
Today, I am joined by Amanda, Erin and Deon to discuss:
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Hoping to remake the culture with the power of government is...
#1416 The Disneyfication of Our Past, Present and Future from 2021-05-08T17:53:53
Air Date 5/8/2021
Today we take a look at the culture that Disney has helped create and how they did it, using cuteness as a weapon to push ideas from racist stereoty...
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#1415 Accountability Not Justice, Continuing the Fight After the Chauvin Trial from 2021-05-06T02:41:30
Air Date 5/5/2021
Today we take a look briefly at the trial of Derek Chauvin itself before moving on to various responses, a wide-angle lens on some of the forces at ...
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#1362 Politics is Pointillism, Stand Back to See It Clearly (Voter Suppression) (Repost) from 2021-04-29T01:14:03
Air Date 8/22/2020
Today we take a look at the long history and motivations for voter suppression, explain why it tends to help one party over the other and why vote-...
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#1414 Go Home and Go Big (Infrastructure Investment, Jobs and Climate Mitigation) from 2021-04-24T16:20:24
Air Date 4/24/2021
Today we take a look at the major infrastructure investment plan proposed by the Biden administration, progressive perspectives arguing to make it ...
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#1413 Reflection on Insurrection (Police, White Supremacy and their Champions) from 2021-04-21T23:26:25
Air Date 4/21/2021
Today we take a look at the insurrection and police violence through the lens of White Supremacy and the rise of the likes of Tucker Carlson who ha...
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#1412 Trans People as Disposable Chess Pieces in a Despicable Political Game from 2021-04-17T18:13:36
Air Date 4/17/2021
Today we take a look at the surge of anti-trans legislation coming from Republican-controlled state legislatures. Being concerned that suppressing ...
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ACTIVISM: Tell the Senate to Pass the #EqualityAct to Protect LGBTQ+ Rights, and More from 2021-04-17T00:40:27
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#1411 Our Democracy is Filibusted, Time to Kill the Filibuster from 2021-04-15T03:41:22
Air Date 4/14/2021
Today we take a look at the one element of our government that, above all others, has contributed to the absolute disfunction of our democracy. The...
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#1410 Anti-Monopoly Activism for a New Era from 2021-04-11T02:19:25
Air Date 4/10/2021
Today we take a look at the need for a modern assessment of the corporate monopolies who dominate our online and offline experiences, including see...
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Sample Bonus Edition: Vertical Shenanigans from 2021-04-09T00:19:41
#1353 Uprising, George Floyd was the spark that ignited the world (Repost) from 2021-04-07T02:35:47
Air Date 6/17/2020
Today we take a look at the uprising sparked by the killing of George Floyd in the context of a world in which that event was just the last straw i...
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#1409 The Change We Want and Deserve (Gun Violence) from 2021-04-03T15:26:35
Air Date 4/03/2021
Today we take a look at the need for reform to our gun laws through the lens of the recent mass shootings. Support for various reform measures reac...
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#1408 Anti-Asian Hate and White Ignorance from 2021-04-01T00:38:47
Air Date 3/31/2021
Today we take a look at the history of anti-Asian hate in America dating back to the very first racially discriminatory immigration law, the ramifi...
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#1407 Reclaiming the Streets (Defunding the Police and the Sarah Everard Outcry) from 2021-03-29T00:19:20
Air Date 3/28/2021
Today we take a look at the progress being made on the effort to reform and defund the police in America as well as the reignited campaign to make ...
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Sample Bonus Edition: Surviving the future while paying to ache for the past from 2021-03-27T03:28:03
Air Date: 3-26-21
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Sample Bonus Edition: Surviving the future while paying to ache for the past from 2021-03-27T03:28:03
Air Date: 3-26-21
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#1406 RIP Austerity, the American Rescue Plan and the End of Reaganism from 2021-03-24T00:39:49
Air Date 3/23/2021
Today we take a look at the American Rescue Plan and discuss what it does, where it falls short and whether it could signal the end of an era.
#1405 Biden Takes the Helm of Our Inhumane Immigration System from 2021-03-20T13:00
Air Date 3/19/2021
Today we take a look at the decades-old problems with our immigration system, what changes are being made under the new administration, and some of...
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ACTIVISM: Shut Down Detention Centers: Join the #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages Week of Action, March 22-26 via @DetentionWatch from 2021-03-19T22:36:56
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#1293 Debating Democratic Socialism and How to Get There (Repost) from 2021-03-16T23:24:36
Air Date 7/30/2019
Today we take a look at the ongoing debate about socialism between socialists and non-socialists alike, including discussion of tactical strategies...
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#1404 Democracy Under Siege (Voting and Protest Rights) from 2021-03-13T02:18:33
Air Date 3/12/2021
Today we take a look at the multiple tactics being implemented in an attempt to undermine the entire concept of democracy because adhering to the w...
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#1403 The American Empire Gets a Reboot (Foreign Policy Under Biden) from 2021-03-10T03:40:56
Air Date 3/9/2021
Today we take a look at the current goings on around the world regarding our foreign policy under the new but not-so-new-feeling leadership of Joe B...
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#1402 Racism or Classism? Caste Explains that it is Both from 2021-03-06T23:28:32
Air Date 3/6/2021
Today we take a look at the origins of race and the building of a caste system in the US based largely on the lessons from Isabel Wilkerson, author ...
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#1283 Native (Mis)Representation from 2021-03-03T23:42:11
Air Date 6/21/2019
Today we take a look at the ways that Native Peoples are represented in white society and pop culture, how some are working to take back their own ...
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#1401 That is a Texas-Sized Climate Disaster You Got There from 2021-02-28T15:00
Air Date 2/27/2021
Today we take a look at the climate-fueled disaster in Texas from almost every angle; from the strictly scientific to the purely political and all ...
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#1285 Naked Capitalism has a Fig Leaf (Repost) from 2021-02-25T00:11:50
Air Date 6/28/2019
Today we take a look at the ways that extreme inequality and many of the worst instincts and repercussions of capitalism are being upheld and perpe...
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#1400 Fighting Neoliberalism from the Fields of India to the Fight for 15 from 2021-02-21T02:58:32
Air Date 2/20/2021
Today we take a look at the fight to create and maintain workable and humane economic and social floors, beneath which people are not allowed to fa...
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#1399 Myths are written by the victors, history by the scholars from 2021-02-17T02:08:59
Air Date 2/16/2021
Today we take a look at the competing histories fighting for dominance in the minds of Americans; the mythologized and romanticized history as repr...
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#1398 The Road to Justice Runs Through Accountability from 2021-02-13T19:55:50
Air Date 2/13/2021
Today we take a look at the fallout from the January 6th insurrection, the case for impeachment and/or punishment for every single person involved ...
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#1397 Vaccine Rollout Once Again Exposes the Divide in Our Global Medical Apartheid from 2021-02-10T18:36:23
Air Date 2/10/2021
Today we take a look at the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the US and around the world. Between White and Black in the US, Israeli and Palestinian...
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#1396 The Platforms of Our Discontent (Social Media, Social Destruction) from 2021-02-06T00:32:25
Air Date 2/5/2021
Today we take a look at the role that social media plays in the radicalization of discontented communities and engage in the debate over content mod...
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#1318 Why We Cannot Have Nice Things (How Racism Hurts Everyone, Including White People) (Repost) from 2021-02-04T01:05:37
Air Date 11/12/2019
Today we take a look at some of the ways that conservative policies, willed into existence almost exclusively by white people, measurably hurt peo...
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#1395 The Arab Spring, Bin Laden Killed, Giffords Shot, Occupy Wall St. and Birtherism (A Look Back at 2011) from 2021-01-31T18:48:28
Air Date 1/31/2021
Today we take a look back at the year 2011 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn. 2010 was an enormous year of news wh...
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#1394 White Terrorism and Willful Ignorance from 2021-01-27T02:06:33
Air Date 1/26/2021
Today we take a look at our long history of ignoring domestic, right-wing terrorism from the Oklahoma City bombing through to the predictable actio...
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#1261 Profitable Extremism (How Social Media Propagates Hate) (Repost) from 2021-01-23T22:59:47
Air Date 4/2/2019
Today we take a look at the so-called "Algorithms of Oppression." Not that they're made to be that way on purpose but that it is a natural outcome o...
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#1393 Opportunists, Enablers and Seditionists, the Rot at the Heart of the GOP from 2021-01-20T01:16:08
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#1392 The Coup Klux Klan and the January 6 Insurrection from 2021-01-17T03:58:50
Air Date 1/16/2021
Today we take a look at the underlying fears and motivations for the insurrection that go beyond the Big Lie™ of a stolen election to the bedrock o...
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#1391 The Road to Sedition from 2021-01-10T20:30:17
Air Date 1/10/2021
Today, in our 15th-anniversary episode, we take a look at the the years and years of warning signs we having been highlighting since 2006 that coll...
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#1390 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Our Second Founding (Reconstruction) from 2021-01-06T00:30:01
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#1355 I Can't Breathe, The Three Words That Define an Era (Repost) from 2021-01-03T00:46:26
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#1333 An Examination of Fear, Anger, Forgiveness and Grace (and Mr. Rogers) (Repost) from 2020-12-31T00:18:45
Air Date 2/20/2020
Today we take a look at the relationship between fear, anger and how to deal with the structural forces of harm in our society. To help us, we exam...
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#1320 The Rise and Inevitable Fall of Neoliberalism (Repost) from 2020-12-27T02:38:41
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#1389 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Origins of the War on Christmas, Revealed! from 2020-12-23T03:00
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#1388 The Cathartic, Angry Description of Our COVID Response That You Need to Hear from 2020-12-19T02:41:04
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#1387 Hyper-Partisanship is Baked Into the System, Not a Result of Bad Actors from 2020-12-16T03:57:39
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#1386 Out With The Old Foreign Policy, In With The Even Older from 2020-12-12T17:00
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#1385 The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives from 2020-12-09T15:00
Air Date 12/9/2020
Today we take a look in real-time at the construction of the world's newest Lost Cause narrative, the failed re-election of Donald Trump. This is n...
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URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT! BotL in financial trouble and how you can help for free! from 2020-12-09T01:12:35
Today's short announcement explains the financial hit the show unexpectedly took recently and lays out all of the ways you can help us get through it, one of which will cost you no money at all....
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#1384 Beyond Trump. Radical Authoritarianism in America. from 2020-12-05T15:00
Air Date 12/5/2020
Today we take a look at what's behind Trump and his autocratic instincts. The enablers, the supporters and the long lineage of authoritarianism. Listen
#1383 The Work That Wins Elections (Political Organizing) from 2020-12-02T03:00
Air Date 12/2/2020
Today we take a look at some of the highlights of how the 2020 election was won, the people doing the work and what's still at stake.
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#1269 Following the thread of the global Great Transition (Repost) from 2020-11-27T22:52:15
Air Date 5/3/2019
Today we take a look at several topics that, at first glance, may seem to be unrelated but that I think are all tied together with a thread that run...
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#1321 Decolonization is for Everyone (Repost) from 2020-11-24T23:53:44
Air Date 11/23/2019
Today we take a look at just a few forms the decolonization movement is taking from finance to cartography to the internet and beyond.
#1382 Progressive Policies Are Good Politics from 2020-11-21T00:41:47
Air Date 11/20/2020
Today we take a look at the results of the elections beyond the presidency and find that progressive policies did well which should be a lesson to...
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#1381 The Conservative Fever Swamp is Reaching Critical Mass from 2020-11-17T23:17:51
Air Date 11/17/2020
Today we take a look at the Republican Party and that which is hath wrought. The deeply racist and conspiratorial constituency has been part of th...
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#1380 The Coup Attempt We Saw Coming Years in Advance from 2020-11-14T02:45:42
Air Date: 11–13-2020
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#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America from 2020-11-11T03:52:50
Air Date 11/10/2020
Today we take a look at the long and shifting history of the myth of democracy in America. We've never had it since the beginning but the reasons ...
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Bonus Edition #221 All the credit we can give to the saviors of democracy from 2020-11-07T03:55:35
Air Date 11/6/2020
Today, Amanda and I process the election, explain hyper-polarization, and why Black women are saving the country again.
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#1378 Bracing for Impact (Election 2020, #AllVotesMatter) from 2020-11-03T12:40:10
Air Date 11/2/2020
Today we brace for the election, consider what may come after it and prepare for the role we may need to play in the coming weeks.
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#1339 Recognizing the Signs of Fascism for What They Are (Authoritarianism) (Repost) from 2020-10-31T01:00
Air Date 2/25/2020
Today we take a look at a post-acquittal, power-mad Trump taking advantage of his thoroughly-confirmed ability to do whatever he wants without repe...
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#1377 Building a Solidarity Economy for a More Resilient Future from 2020-10-27T16:00
Air Date 10/27/2020
Today we take a look at some idea for rebuilding our economy and our society in a way that will help everyone recover from the pandemic and make u...
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#1287 Mitch McConnell is the Forking Worst (Repost) from 2020-10-24T23:37
Air Date 7/5/2019
Today we take an unflinching look at Mitch McConnell and what a bad, bad man he is for basically all of the reasons.
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#1376 Tell Stories, Not Myths: America is a Force But Not Always For Good from 2020-10-21T21:39:39
Air Date 10/21/2020
Today we take a look at some of the many zany foreign misadventures the United States has had over the past 100 years. And by "zany misadventures"...
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#1375 The Militia Movement is Having a Moment from 2020-10-16T21:38:56
Air Date 10/16/2020
Today we take a look at the history and origins of the American militia movement right up to the recent plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan, t...
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#1374 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Columbus and the Centrality of Colonialism from 2020-10-13T20:16:49
Air Date 10/13/2020
Today we take a look at the myths of Columbus and American Exceptionalism™ that we cling to and turn our gaze to some of the less-understood but m...
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#1373 Post-Roe: The Next Phase in the Fight for Reproductive Justice from 2020-10-09T20:18:32
Air Date 10/9/2020
Today we take a look at the future of abortion rights and the broader reproductive justice movement in the face of a conservative super-majority on...
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#1372 The Supreme Court. Before, During and After Ruth Bader Ginsburg. from 2020-10-06T19:27:21
Air Date 10/6/2020
Today we take a look at the legacy of RBG from her time before and as Justice of the Supreme Court as well as the fight ahead against the threat of...
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#1371 Why Even Seemingly Normal People Are Falling for the QAnon Conspiracy Cult from 2020-10-01T16:22:52
Air Date 10/1/2020
Today we take a look at the phenomenon of pro-Trump conspiracy cult: QAnon, what it is and why so many people are getting sucked into it.
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#1370 Bernie Sanders on Trump as a Threat to American Democracy from 2020-09-26T00:00
Air Date 9/26/2020
Today we present, instead of what was intended to be a rerun episode, Senator Bernie Sanders' major speech on the threat Donald Trump poses to demo...
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#1369 The Business Model That Ate the World (Facebook) from 2020-09-22T21:23:19
Air Date 9/22/2020
Today we take a look at the rising concern over Facebook as more and more negative impacts of the site become evident to an ever-expanding group of...
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#1368 Our Essential, Yet Disposable, Labor from 2020-09-18T18:47:26
Air Date 9/18/2020
Today we take a look at some of the dynamics at play for some of the most vulnerable people in America who are doing much of the most essential wor...
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#1367 The Post Office and the Census, Unmaking the American Institutions That Most Bind Us Together from 2020-09-15T21:01:37
Air Date 9/15/2020
Today we take a look at two of America's oldest institutions which are both under attack, the US Post Office and the Census. The clear through-line...
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#1366 The Great Unhousing of America from 2020-09-12T00:00
Air Date 9/11/2020
Today we take a look at the easily predictable, yet growing, eviction crisis in America that is entirely thanks to a political and economic system ...
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#1365 White Supremacy, Authoritarians, Trump and the Coming Election from 2020-09-08T19:51:43
Air Date 9/8/2020
Today we take a look at the dynamics of the white nationalist movement, authoritarian psychology, the legacy of Richard Nixon and the uncertainty of...
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#1364 Fundamentalist-Driven Sectarian Violence (And I am Not Talking About a Foreign Country) from 2020-09-05T15:05:59
Air Date 9/5/2020
Today we take a look at the protests and counter-protests roiling the nation and recognize the conspiracy-laden fundamentalism of the far-right that...
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#1363 An Education in Individualism (in)Action (Back to School) from 2020-09-01T21:04:02
Air Date 9/1/2020
Today we take a look at the concerns being weighed in the debate over returning to in-person learning as the beginning of the school year gets underway....
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#1362 Politics is Pointillism, Stand Back to See Things Clearly (Voter Suppression) from 2020-08-25T16:00
Air Date 8/25/2020
Today we take a look at the long history and motivations for voter suppression, explain why it tends to help one party over the other and why vote-...
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#1361 Building a Better System of Justice from 2020-08-12T20:25:30
Air Date 8/12/2020
Today we take a look at Restorative Justice as an antidote to a wide range of injustices we face, from mass incarceration to having a toddler throw...
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#1360 Redefine, Unburden and #DefundThePolice from 2020-08-08T13:30:52
Air Date 8/8/2020
Today we take a look at the concept of defunding the police; what it means, what it doesn't and what the goals of the movement are.Listen
#1359 The Life, Legacy and Lessons of John Lewis from 2020-08-05T13:42:20
Air Date 8/5/2020
Today we take a look at the life and legacy of Congressman John Lewis at a moment in time when the lessons he has to teach us are as important as wh...
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#1358 How A System Of Power Defends Itself, A Case Study from 2020-07-20T16:00
Air Date 7/20/2020
Systems maintain themselves through the efforts of many moving parts that need not understand their roles in maintaining the system as a whole, onl...
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#1357 What Trump is Invoking When He Invokes Manifest Destiny from 2020-07-10T22:24:08
Air Date 7/10/2020
Today we take a look at the origins and legacy of Manifest Destiny, the historical term most closely tied to our most toxic version of nostalgia: t...
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#1356 The Many, Many Problems with Cops and Why Reform is Impossible from 2020-07-06T20:27:10
Air Date 7/6/2020
Today we take a look at the problems with cops that aren't the obvious, racist problems. We're talking about the rules that help protect bad cops fr...
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#1355 I Can't Breathe, The Three Words That Define an Era from 2020-06-29T17:43:21
Air Date 6/29/2020
Today we take a look deeper at the concept of "I can't breathe," going beyond the literal utterances by victims of police brutality and COVID-19 su...
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#1354 Police violence and racism are a product of our past (Uprising, Crackdown, Authoritarianism) from 2020-06-22T19:49:14
Air Date 6/22/2020
Today we take a look at the history of racist policing which flows seamlessly into our present racist policing which itself flows into Trump's auth...
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#1353 Uprising, George Floyd was the spark that ignited the world from 2020-06-17T20:13:51
Air Date 6/17/2020
Today we take a look at the uprising sparked by the killing of George Floyd in the context of a world in which that event was just the last straw i...
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#1352 Racism In America, The Last 160 Years, Explained from 2020-06-10T15:10:21
Air Date 6/10/2020
Today we take a look at the long arc of racism in America as a primer for many of the topics it would be good for you to be acquainted with as we l...
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#1351 The Empire Strikes Up Another Cold War (China and US Empire) from 2020-06-05T20:48:45
Air Date 6/5/2020
Today we take a look at the growing importance of China on the world stage and the growing instinct of the American Empire to confront it even while...
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#1029 You can't reignite a fire that never stops burning (Black and Blue Lives) (Repost) from 2020-06-02T21:07:15
Air Date 7/19/2016
Today we take a listen to a few of the reactions from people of color to the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and the police officers...
#1350 Reach For The Good Ideas That Are Just Lying Around (Disaster Capitalism) from 2020-05-21T17:23:47
Air Date 5/21/2020
Today we take a look at the classic battle between good and... not evil exactly but worse than just 'bad'... 'malicious indifference to suffering in th...
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Bonus Edition #208 Planet of the Humans from Michael Moore, Explained from 2020-05-15T16:00
Air Date 5/15/2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss the new film Executive Produced by Michael Moore, Planet of the Humans. We try to hit as many topics as we can but do n...
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Bonus Edition #207 Hope springs eternal and tries to kill you from 2020-05-07T19:58:29
Air Date 5/7/2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss the dangerous, pervasive epidemic of hope fueled by desperation spreading throughout the country that is leading people ...
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#1349 A Deep Dive on the Dysfunction of Trump and his Followers (Coronavirus) from 2020-05-04T00:00
Air Date 5/3/2020
Today we take a look at the unique, profound dysfunction at the heart of the train wreck that is Trump's response to the Coronavirus. Plus, we explo...
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Bonus Edition #205 A Pandemic of American Myths from 2020-04-29T15:18:18
Air Date 4/29/2020
Today, we discuss clips that highlight two of the most powerful American myths that consistently drive us into calamitous territory: the primacy of...
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#1348 Not the Great Equalizer, the Amplifier of Disparity (Coronavirus) from 2020-04-22T02:02:40
Air Date 4/21/2020
Today we take a look at the ways that COVID-19 are impacting the most vulnerable communities the worst and how our legacy of discrimination is bein...
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Bonus Edition #203 The Fog of Work from 2020-04-16T19:55:17
Air Date 4/16/2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss a few of the aspects of life during a pandemic that's causing mental fog and affecting our work.
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#1347 Locked in a Petri Dish (Mass Pandemic Incarceration) from 2020-04-12T16:21:26
Air Date 4/12/2020
Today we take a look at the way mass incarceration is coming back to bite the US as jails, prisons and immigrant detention centers are becoming Pet...
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Bonus Edition #201 Forget Positive Thinking, Feel Better by Contemplating the Worst from 2020-04-08T19:25:48
Air Date 4/8/2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss the extremely counterintuitive practice of Negative Visualization and how it could be one of the most powerful tools to ...
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#1346 Pandemic Economics and the Reverse Robin Hood Bailout from 2020-04-04T14:32:53
Air Date 4/4/2020
Today we take a look at many of the economic angles of the COVID-19 pandemic including the role of the shock doctrine in the wake of the coronavirus...
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Bonus Edition #200 Mental Taxation from 2020-04-01T19:57:19
Air Date: 4-1-20
Today, Amanda and I discuss the silent, ever-present taxation that is robbing all of us of our normal levels of mental energy during the pandemic.
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#1345 All the Best COVID-19 Coping Mechanisms in One Place from 2020-03-26T16:00
Air Date 3/26/2020
Today we take a look at the toll the pandemic is taking on mental health and offer a wide range of coping mechanisms to help get everyone through.<...
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#1344 Everything is Political (Social Safety Net in a Time of Pandemic) from 2020-03-20T16:00
Air Date 3/20/2020
Today we take a look at the social safety net we need in the face of Coronavirus and the forces preventing us from having it.
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Bonus Edition #198 No Time for Individualism (Dealing with Coronavirus) from 2020-03-14T22:58:40
Air Date 3/14/2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss the emotional toll of dealing with a pandemic, some facts about how math works in cases of exponential growth, the unfo...
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#1343 Bread and Roses (Socialism is Freedom and Firefighters) from 2020-03-11T12:09:41
Air Date 3/10/2020
Today we take a look at Democratic Socialism and how to explain it because socialism and the freedoms it provides are a lot more American than we t...
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#1342 What Coronavirus Reveals About the Structures of Our World from 2020-03-07T17:00
Air Date 3/7/2020
Today we take a look at the Coronavirus through the lens of the systems it is affecting including the incompetence of a government that doesn't beli...
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#1341 Bernie and the Billionaires (Democratic Primary Election) from 2020-03-03T17:00
Air Date 3/3/2020
Today we take a look at the election through the lens of billionaire politics, from the candidates in both parties to the heads of media organizatio...
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#1340 The Border Between Socialism and Barbarism (Immigration and Empire) from 2020-02-28T17:00
Air Date 2/28/2020
Today we take a look at the historical through-line that has brought us to the present state of border barbarism we're now witnessing. An empire of...
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#1339 Recognizing the Signs of Fascism for What They Are (Authoritarianism) from 2020-02-25T17:00
Air Date 2/25/2020
Today we take a look at a post-acquittal, power-mad Trump taking advantage of his thoroughly-confirmed ability to do whatever he wants without repe...
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#1338 Budgets are Moral Documents, Trump Budgets are Immoral from 2020-02-22T11:00
Air Date 2/22/2020
Today we take a look at Trump's recently-proposed budget and rule changes targeting the most vulnerable recipients of Social Security benefits. The...
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#1337 The Indicted and the Impeached Make Peace with Continued Oppression (Israel) from 2020-02-19T17:00
Air Date 2/19/2020
Today we take a look at the, ahem, "Peace Plan" devised by the US and Israel with absolutely no input from Palestinians. Plus, some additional disc...
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#1336 Throwing Our Weight Around (The Future of Trade) from 2020-02-15T17:00
Air Date 2/15/2020
Today we take a look at the ways Trump is working to rewrite the rules of trade with NAFTA 2.0 (The USMCA), a post-Brexit agreement with the United...
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#1335 Worldwide Authoritarianism is Built on the Back of Islamophobia from 2020-02-08T17:00
Air Date 2/8/2020
Today we take a look at the globetrotting trend of building and maintaining far-right, authoritarian political power by stoking fear and hatred of M...
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#1334 Your Life Will Have Been What You Paid Attention To (Attention Economy) from 2020-02-05T11:00
Air Date 2/5/2020
Today we take a look at the past, present and future of behavior modification from worms to pigeons to prisoners, and finally, internet users.<...
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#1333 An Examination of Fear, Anger, Forgiveness and Grace (Also, Mr. Rogers) from 2020-02-02T20:17:54
Air Date 2/2/2020
Today we take a look at the relationship between fear, anger and how to deal with the structural forces of harm in our society. To help us, we exami...
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#1332 Old Wounds, New Wounds (Democratic Primary) from 2020-01-29T17:47:12
Air Date 1/29/2020
Today we take a look at the flurry of controversy around the Democratic Primary race, once again exposing multiple rifts within the party along bot...
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#1331 A look into our frightening, fiery future (Australia Bushfires) from 2020-01-25T18:21:29
Air Date 1/25/2020
Today we take a look at the climatic, political and social dynamics at play that have helped set the country of Australia ablaze both literally and...
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#1330 Facing an Irrational Foe (Trump escalates tension with Iran) from 2020-01-22T23:08:45
Air Date 1/22/2020
Today we take a look at the history of US tensions with Iran and the reality that it has been the irrationality of multiple Republican administrati...
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#1329 Our Longest War Has Been a Lie All Along (The Afghanistan Papers) from 2020-01-18T10:00
Air Date 1/18/2020
Today we take a look at The Afghanistan Papers which reveal in stark detail much of what the anti-war movement has known or strongly suspected sinc...
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#1328 Iraq, Citizens United, Obamacare, The Tea Party and The Deepwater Horizon (A Look Back at 2010) from 2020-01-14T21:41:03
Air Date 1/14/2020
Today we take a look back at the year 2010 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn. 2010 was an enormous year of news an...
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Bonus Edition: Honorable Mentions 2009 from 2020-01-09T21:54:16
Air Date: 1/6/2019
Today, due to my current bout of perpetual-rake-in-the-face, I share a selection of honorable mentions from the 2009 retrospective show
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#1327 Impeachment as a Lens Through Which to Understand the GOP from 2019-12-21T17:00
Air Date 12/21/2019
Today we take a look at the GOP through modern history to understand how they came to be what they are and how the impeachment is throwing this re...
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#1326 Impeachment: A History Of from 2019-12-18T01:24:05
Air Date 12/17/2019
Today we take a look at the history of impeachment starting with the crafting of the language in the constitution and on to how the impeachment pr...
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#1325 Impeachment: Ukraine, Russia, Corruption and Conspiracy Theories from 2019-12-13T17:00
Air Date 12/13/2019
Today we take a look at the impeachment story through the lens of the last six years of history between Russia and Ukraine from the annexation of ...
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#1324 State of the Unions and the 2020 Elections from 2019-12-10T17:00
Air Date 12/10/2019
Today we take a look at the labor movement as energy and power continue to build and more workers continue to strike to demand better conditions f...
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#1323 Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control from 2019-12-07T17:00
Air Date 12/7/2019
Today we take a look at the reaction to decades of the fetishization of privatization in the form of a reinvigorated movement for public ownership ...
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#1322 Freedom of Speech vs Freedom of Reach (Regulating Facebook) from 2019-12-04T17:00
Air Date 12/4/2019
Today we take a look at some solutions to our social media problems of fake news, propaganda and hate in all forms spreading like wildfire through society
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Bonus - Brave New Words: Access to Medicine from 2019-11-25T17:00
Sponsored: Today we feature a full episode of Brave New Words focusing on one of the most pressing issues for Americans: access to medicine and the fight against Big Pharma.
#1321 Decolonization is for Everyone from 2019-11-23T17:00
Air Date: 11/23/2019
Today we take a look at just a few forms the decolonization movement is taking from finance to cartography to the internet and beyond. Listen
#1320 The Rise and Inevitable Fall of Neoliberalism (Audio Fixed) from 2019-11-20T17:00
Air Date: 11/20/2019
Today we take a look at how Neoliberalism was born, how it was maintained and why it is on the verge of collapse.Listen
#1319 Democrats and Plutocrats, Wealth Tax and Wall Street from 2019-11-15T17:00
Air Date: 11/15/2019
Today we take a look at the proposals from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for a Wealth Tax and how those proposals run afoul of not just Rep...
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#1318 Why We Cannot Have Nice Things (How Racism Hurts Everyone, Including White People) from 2019-11-12T21:00
Air Date: 11/12/2019
Today we take a look at some of the ways that conservative policies, willed into existence almost exclusively by white people, measurably hurt pe...
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#1317 Taking to the Streets in Chile and Around the World to Protest Neoliberalism from 2019-11-05T20:00
Air Date: 11/5/2019
Today we take a look at the many protests ongoing around the world with a very strong through-line of demands to reverse austerity, lessen inequal...
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#1316 Winning the messaging war for a just, moral health care system from 2019-11-01T22:00
Air Date: 11/1/2019
Today we take a look at how the debate over our health care system has been framed and how we should frame it.
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#1315 The Wrecking Crew (The Trump appointees running the government) from 2019-10-29T20:00
Air Date: 10/29/2019
Today we take a look at some of the main characters that make up the Trump administration to get a sense of who they are, where they're coming fr...
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#1314 Hong Kong Protests (Where Colonialism meets Neoliberalism) from 2019-10-25T23:00
Air Date: 10/25/2019
Today we take a look at the complicated series of forces driving the protests in Hong Kong that span the ideological spectrum.Listen
#1313 Why Prison Abolition is not Nearly as Scary as it Sounds from 2019-10-23T02:00
Air Date: 10/22/2019
Today we take a look at why the concept of prison abolition isn’t as scary as it sounds, the answer to the question of what would replace prisons...
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#1312 How Trump managed to make the Middle East more chaotic from 2019-10-19T02:00
Air Date: 10/18/2019
Today we take a look at the recent developments between Turkey and Syria and the role Trump played in allowing Turkey to effectively invade Syria...
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#1311 Our Culture and Our Economy are Making Us Depressed from 2019-10-16T00:00
Air Date: 10/15/2019
Today we take a look at the literally depressing truth about our economy, our work and the culture that surrounds it. We work too hard to be perfe...
#1310 At Long Last (Trump Impeachment) from 2019-10-05T00:00
Air Date: 10/4/2019
Today we take a look at this whole impeachment kerfuffle I’ve been hearing about.
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#1309 Facing Our Existential Dread Head On (Trump and Climate Anxiety) from 2019-10-02T00:00
Air Date: 10/1/2019
Today we take an unflinching look at two of the major sources of anxiety in modern life, Donald Trump and the climate crisis, and some of what we ...
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#1308 Understanding America by Understanding 9/11 from 2019-09-28T00:00
Air Date: 9/27/2019
Today we take a look at the legacy of 9/11; the war on terror, the PATRIOT Act, our collective PTSD and our desperate clinging to American Excepti...
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#1307 The Melting Pot Goes to the Polls (The 2020 Electorate) from 2019-09-25T00:00
Air Date: 9/24/2019
Today we take a look at the 2020 electorate. Not the election, not the candidates, the electorate - the people voting.Listen
#1306 Kochland: How We All Became Residents of a Libertarian Fever Dream from 2019-09-18T00:00
Air Date: 9/17/2019
Today we take a look at the lives and legacies of the Koch Brothers. Or, put more pointedly, we look at how two decedents of a bonafide conspiracy...
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#1305 How to Build an Empire (A History of American Expansion) from 2019-09-14T00:00
Air Date: 9/13/2019
Today we take a look at the history and the process of the building of an American empire that currently spans the globe but allows as few people ...
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#1304 The Coming Recession and How Progressives Can Prepare For It from 2019-09-11T00:00
Air Date: 9/10/2019
Today we take a look at the economic indicators portending a recession, the global impacts of Trump's trade war with China and then look ahead to ...
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#1303 Election Systems are Not to Be Trusted, They are to Be Verifiable from 2019-09-07T02:00
Air Date: 9/6/2019
Today we take a look at the fact that our election system is designed to fail in ways that undermine the legitimacy of our elections and, by extens...
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#1302 Protecting the Amazon Rainforest from a Fascist from 2019-09-04T00:00
Air Date: 9/3/2019
Today we take a look at the attacks on the Amazon rainforest and its inhabitants by the fascist government of Brazil and the protests and worldwide...
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#1301 Building a Livable and Just World in a Time of Climate Chaos from 2019-08-31T00:00
Air Date: 8/30/2019
Today we take a look at the strategies being developed to mitigate and adapt to climate chaos while centering social justice in our planning<...
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#1300 Progressive prosecutors are repairing our injustice system from the ground up from 2019-08-28T00:00
Air Date: 8/27/2019
Today we take a look at the movement to elect progressives to the position of chief prosecutors in cities across the country in an effort to curb ...
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#1299 The Democratic Divide, Disagreeing AND Being Disagreeable from 2019-08-24T00:00
Air Date: 8/23/2019
Today we take a look at the lengths the Democratic leadership will go in an attempt to silence the emerging progressive movement within their rank...
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#1298 Standing up Against Cowardly Fear, Fragility and Mass Murder (Gun Responsibility) from 2019-08-21T00:00
Air Date: 8/20/2019
Today we take a look at the El Paso and Dayton shootings by connecting the dots between white supremacy, misogyny, privilege and power
#1297 Corporate Media is Designed to Ruin Political Discourse in America from 2019-08-17T00:00
Air Date: 8/16/2019
Today we take a look at just a few of the ways that it is in the nature of corporate media to ruin political discourse by dismissing progressive p...
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#1296 Decolonizing the Puerto Rican Mind from 2019-08-13T00:00
Air Date: 8/12/2019
Today we take a look at the recent rebellion in Puerto Rico that unseated the governor as well as plenty of the context of what led us to this poi...
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#1295 How Fascism Uses White Supremacy to Delegitimize Non-Whites and Enrich the Wealthy from 2019-08-07T01:00
Air Date: 8/06/2019
Today we take a look at the racist attacks by Trump and his supporters against "The Squad" and how those attacks are in line with a long tradition...
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#1294 Journalism is Under Attack in America Like Never Before from 2019-08-03T00:00
Air Date: 8/02/2019
Today we take a look at the ways that Trump and his administration are systematically chipping away at the concept of a free press, a hallmark tac...
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#1293 Debating Democratic Socialism and How to Get There from 2019-07-31T00:00
Air Date: 7/30/2019
Today we take a look at the ongoing debate about socialism between socialists and non-socialists alike, including discussion of tactical strategie...
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#1290 The World is Rising in Rebellion Against Climate Inaction (Audio Fixed) from 2019-07-30T16:00
This episode, when originally posted, had its wires crossed and some listeners would have heard a rerun episode instead by mistake. This has been fixed so please re-download the episode and enjo...
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Bonus: Bernie Sanders Speech on Democratic Socialism from 2019-07-30T06:52:44
In preparation for our next regular episode on the topic of socialism in America and Bernie Sanders' role in bringing the debate to the center of the Democratic primary campaign, I wanted to mak...
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#1292 A Republic, If We Can Keep It (Unrigging Gerrymandering) from 2019-07-26T16:00
Air Date: 7/26/2019
Today we take a look at the fight for free and fair elections in which voters choose their representatives rather than the politicians getting to ...
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#1291 The Life and Death Politics of Health Care from 2019-07-23T15:00
Air Date: 7/23/2019
Today we take a look at the fight for Medicare for All through the lens of the Democratic Primary elections. ...
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#1289 How to Build a War from Scratch (Iran) from 2019-07-13T00:00
Air Date: 7/12/2019
Today we take a look at the well-planned and completely predictable build-up to war with Iran from the Republican neocons and theocrats who've wan...
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#1288 #DontLookAway from US Concentration Camps for Asylum Seekers from 2019-07-10T16:00
Air Date: 7/10/2019
Today we take a look at the history, legality, conditions and consequences of US concentrations camps erected to house asylum seekers fleeing from...
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#1287 Mitch McConnell is the Forking Worst from 2019-07-05T09:00
Air Date: 7/5/2019
Today we take an unflinching look at Mitch McConnell and what a bad, bad man he is for basically all of the reasons.Listen
#1286 The Rise of Christian Nationalism from 2019-07-03T01:00
Air Date: 7/2/2019
Today we take a look at the ways in which Christians are being rallied to see themselves as the true victimized minority in America, a key componen...
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#1285 Naked Capitalism has a Fig Leaf from 2019-06-29T00:00
Air Date: 6/28/2019
Today we take a look at the ways that extreme inequality and many of the worst instincts and repercussions of capitalism are being upheld and perp...
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#1284 How progressive philanthropy strangles progress from 2019-06-26T01:00
Air Date: 6/25/2019
Today we take a look at the surprisingly varied ways that progressive, well-meaning, do-gooding philanthropists have consistently held back the social ...
#1283 Native (Mis)Representation (Native Peoples Series Part 5) from 2019-06-21T22:00
Air Date: 6/21/2019
Today we take a look at the ways that Native Peoples are represented in white society and pop culture, how some are working to take back their own narr...
#1283 Native (Mis)Representation (Native Peoples Series Part 5) from 2019-06-21T22:00
Air Date: 6/21/2019
Today we take a look at the ways that Native Peoples are represented in white society and pop culture, how some are working to take back their own narr...
#1282 Marginalized groups within marginalized groups (LGBTQ) from 2019-06-19T01:00
Air Date: 6/18/2019
Today we take a look at the violence being inflicted upon the LGB and particularly T community as well as the history of our societies erasure of trans...
#1281 The Politics and Principle of Reparations from 2019-06-15T01:00
Air Date: 6/14/2019
Today we take a look at the renewed call for reparations for slavery, Jim Crow and beyond that is infusing the 2020 Democratic primary campaign as well...
#1280 Modern Monetary Theory: We already use it, now we need to understand it from 2019-06-12T02:00
Air Date: 6/11/2019
Today we take a look at Modern Monetary Theory and the neoclassical economics it is looking to replace. It’s very important to understand the logistica...
#1280 Modern Monetary Theory: We already use it, now we need to understand it from 2019-06-12T02:00
Air Date: 6/11/2019
Today we take a look at Modern Monetary Theory and the neoclassical economics it is looking to replace. It’s very important to understand the logistica...
#1279 Understanding the growing movement for impeachment from 2019-06-08T01:00
Air Date: 6/7/2019
Today we take a look at the arguments for and against impeaching Donald Trump in the House of Representatives and sending an indictment over to ...
#1278 What the Mueller Report says and does not say from 2019-06-05T01:00
Air Date: 6/4/2019
Today we take a look at the long-awaited Mueller Report and see what conclusions can be drawn from it.
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#1277 We have entered a new stage of attacks on abortion from 2019-06-01T00:00
Air Date: 5/31/2019
Today we take a look at the renewed energy in the anti-choice movement in the wake of the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to ...
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#1276 Our built environment shapes society and vice versa (Urban Development) from 2019-05-29T00:00
Air Date: 5/28/2019
Today we take a look at the ways that how we design and fund our towns, cities and housing impacts the quality of life for everyone in society Listen
#1275 So, Marxism. What is that all about? from 2019-05-25T00:00
Air Date: 5/24/2019
Today we take a look at the much-maligned, rarely-understood field of economic and social study known as Marxism
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#1274 From White Supremacy to the White Power Movement from 2019-05-22T00:00
Air Date: 5/21/2019
Today we take a look at the recent trend of White Nationalist and White Power-related violence, the history of where it's coming from and why the ...
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#1273 Death of the Old, Birth of the New (Global Authoritarianism) from 2019-05-18T01:00
Air Date: 5/17/2019
Today we take a look at the socially and politically existential threat of our time - the fight against encroaching authoritarianism in the US and...
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#1272 The disaster of election capitalism (Election Security) from 2019-05-15T01:00
Air Date: 5/14/2019
Today we take a look at the disastrous system of hackable, unverifiable and expensive electronic voting machines that were our solution to the han...
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#1271 The moderates are coming! (Beto, Biden and Buttigieg) from 2019-05-10T22:00
Air Date: 5/10/2019
Today we take a look at the three moderate white guys sending a shiver up the collective legs of the members of the Democratic Party establishment...
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#1270 Surveillance Capitalism is threatening democracy itself from 2019-05-07T22:00
Air Date: 5/7/2019
Today we take a look at the impacts, from personal to global, of the paradigm of companies profiting off of surveillance of their users, otherwise ...
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#1269 Following the thread of the global Great Transition from 2019-05-03T22:00
Air Date: 5/3/2019
Today we take a look at several topics that, at first glance, may seem to be unrelated but that I think are all tied together with a thread that ru...
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#1268 Are they really taking our jobs? (The Economics of Immigration) from 2019-05-01T01:00
Air Date: 4/30/2019
Today we take a look at just the economic side of immigration including the effects from low-skilled immigrants and high-skilled immigrants and th...
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Bonus Edition: From Brexit to Standing Rock from 2019-04-27T01:00
Air Date: 4/26/2019
Today I have a double-bonus show for you with additional clips on Brexit and Native Peoples
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#1267 Fighting for the soul of the Democratic Party (Progressives vs the Establishment) from 2019-04-24T01:00
Air Date: 4/23/2019
Today we take a look at the current state of the Democratic Party in the wake of the 2018 elections that swept in a new class of Super-Progressive...
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#1266 Writing human bias into the code that runs our lives (Algorithms) from 2019-04-20T01:00
Air Date: 4/19/2019
Today we take a look at the racism, sexism and classism that is permeating the algorithmic systems that are directing more and more of our online ...
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#1265 Moving beyond tragedy by surviving and adapting (Native Peoples) from 2019-04-17T01:00
Air Date: 4/16/2019
Today we take a look at just a few of the aspects of modern life for Native Peoples that we can see as stemming from the racism and colonialism th...
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#1265 Moving beyond tragedy by surviving and adapting (Native Peoples) from 2019-04-17T01:00
Air Date: 4/16/2019
Today we take a look at just a few of the aspects of modern life for Native Peoples that we can see as stemming from the racism and colonialism th...
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#1264 Protesting neoliberalism the only way they could think to (Brexit) from 2019-04-13T01:00
Air Date: 4/12/2019
Today we take a look at everything there is to know about Brexit, Lexit, Remain and Reform, the Irish question, The Troubles, the neoliberalism of...
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#1263 Worker protections help (almost) everyone (Labor Rights) from 2019-04-10T01:00
Air Date: 4/9/2019
Today we take a look at the overwhelming benefits to society of labor, health and safety regulations and how they only people who don't come out ah...
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#1262 Waiting for the Roe to drop (Reproductive Justice) from 2019-04-06T03:00
Air Date: 4/5/2019
Today we take a look at the current state of abortion rights - Hint: They're already in tatters - and speculate about what's to come as Roe vs Wade...
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#1261 Profitable Extremism (How Social Media Propagates Hate) from 2019-04-03T00:00
Air Date: 4/02/2019
Today we take a look at the so-called "Algorithms of Oppression." Not that they're made to be that way on purpose but that it is a natural outcome...
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#1260 Gearing up for the fight for Medicare for All from 2019-03-30T00:00
Air Date: 3/29/2019
Today we take a look at the history of why we don't already have Medicare for All, just a handful of the overwhelming reasons why we need it and t...
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#1259 The rebirth of the antitrust movement (Monopolies) from 2019-03-27T00:00
Air Date: 3/26/2019
Today we take a look at the story of Amazon’s enormous growth, the history of how our antitrust laws were neutered and how the former is making us...
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#1258 The art and science of apologies and forgiveness from 2019-03-23T00:00
Air Date: 3/22/2019
Today we take a look at apologies and forgiveness, some of the building blocks for a healthy human society, at a moment in time when society is re...
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#1257 Debunking the reactionary intellectuals of the dark web from 2019-03-20T00:00
Air Date: 3/19/2019
Today we take a look at the likes of Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson as a window into the world of their followers and as an inoculation against th...
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Bonus Edition #142 The Nordic Theory of Love from 2019-03-16T00:00
Air Date: 3-1-19
Today I share an unusual clip and talk for a while about how much better Scandinavia is than the US.
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#1256 A Green New Deal to build a new Common Sense from 2019-03-13T00:00
Air Date: 3/12/2019
Today we take a look at the development of the Green New Deal and its impacts on economics, labor, frontline communities climate mitigation and th...
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#1256 A Green New Deal to build a new Common Sense from 2019-03-13T00:00
Air Date: 3/12/2019
Today we take a look at the development of the Green New Deal and its impacts on economics, labor, frontline communities climate mitigation and th...
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#1255 Democratizing our presidential elections (National Popular Vote) from 2019-03-08T23:00
Air Date: 3/8/2019
Today we take a look at two strategies being pursued in parallel to reform our presidential election process and make every vote for president coun...
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#1254 Israeli right-wing politics has lead to some strange, fascist bedfellows from 2019-03-05T23:00
Air Date: 3/5/2019
Today we take a look at how the illiberalism of the Israeli government has alienated the vast majority of democratic nations and individuals who su...
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#1253 The Joy of Tax (Comparing the US and Scandinavian Systems) from 2019-03-01T22:30
Air Date: 3/1/2019
Today we take a look at the social benefits of high taxation as the US gears up for our first genuine debate on raising taxes in a long time with a...
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#1253 The Joy of Tax (Comparing the US and Scandinavian Systems) from 2019-03-01T22:30
Air Date: 3/1/2019
Today we take a look at the social benefits of high taxation as the US gears up for our first genuine debate on raising taxes in a long time with a...
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#1252 Taking the first steps of American imperialism (Native People) from 2019-02-26T22:00
Air Date: 2/25/2019
Today we take a look at the process of systematic, government-sponsored genocide against the native peoples of North America that kicked off the w...
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#1252 Taking the first steps of American imperialism (Native People) from 2019-02-26T22:00
Air Date: 2/25/2019
Today we take a look at the process of systematic, government-sponsored genocide against the native peoples of North America that kicked off the w...
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#1251 Candidate Spotlight: Warren and Harris from 2019-02-23T01:00
Air Date: 2/22/2019
Today we take a look at two of the most popular politicians who have announced their candidacies for the Democratic nomination for the presidency,...
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#1158 What America refuses to remember about Martin Luther King Jr. (Repost) from 2019-02-19T21:00
Air Date: 1/16/2018
Today we take a look at the legacy of Martin Luther King that some people prefer to forget and most people never learned about. In fact, it is lik...
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#1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement from 2019-02-16T01:00
Air Date: 2/15/2019
Today we take a look at recent teachers union strike in the Los Angeles school district and see it as another event in an emerging pattern of prog...
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#1249 Understanding Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) from 2019-02-12T17:00
Air Date: 2/12/2019
Today we take a look at both the BDS movement and the backlash response to it resulting in firings and legislation in many states (and pending fed...
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#1248 There you go again. Venezuela and America's addiction to imperialism from 2019-02-08T17:00
Air Date: 2/8/2019
Today we take a look, briefly, at the last 100 years of Venezuelan history to understand how they went from oil riches and inequality to revolution...
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#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) from 2019-02-06T01:00
Air Date: 2/5/2019
Today we take a look at the history of FDR's "Four Freedoms" and "Economic Bill of Rights" that laid the groundwork for the fight for economic free...
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#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) from 2019-02-06T01:00
Air Date: 2/5/2019
Today we take a look at the history of FDR's "Four Freedoms" and "Economic Bill of Rights" that laid the groundwork for the fight for economic free...
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#1246 To amend or not to amend and if so, how? (Article V Convention) from 2019-02-01T23:00
Air Date: 2/1/2019
Today we take a look at the warring factions of progressive and conservatives who are all trying to amend the constitution in various ways. Some pr...
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#1246 To amend or not to amend and if so, how? (Article V Convention) from 2019-02-01T23:00
Air Date: 2/1/2019
Today we take a look at the warring factions of progressive and conservatives who are all trying to amend the constitution in various ways. Some pr...
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#1245 Don't call it a shutdown from 2019-01-29T14:00
Air Date: 1/29/2019
Today we take a look at the planned chaos and fever dream governing style cooked up by the radical, anti-government conservatives running the coun...
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#1244 A Nation of (Criminalized) Immigrants from 2019-01-25T14:00
Air Date: 1/25/2019
Today we take a look at the past and present of our immigration system to understand the paradigms within which the entire debate takes place...
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#1243 The story of Socialism in America from 2019-01-22T13:00
Air Date: 1/22/2019
Today we take a look at socialism in America from our often violent response to the concept in the wake of the Russian Revolution through the rece...
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#1243 The story of Socialism in America from 2019-01-22T13:00
Air Date: 1/22/2019
Today we take a look at socialism in America from our often violent response to the concept in the wake of the Russian Revolution through the rece...
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#1242 Fighting for a Green New Deal from 2019-01-18T13:00
Air Date: 1/18/2019
Today we take a look at the groundwork for a Green New Deal as it's being laid and the fight that is heating up around the policies, not just betw...
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#1241 The Price of Empire (US Foreign Policy) from 2019-01-15T09:00
Air Date: 1/15/2019
Today we take a look at the history and mechanics of US empire and the military-industrial-congressional complex that gleefully perpetuates it. Listen
#1240 The bare-knuckle fight for democracy itself from 2019-01-11T09:00
Air Date: 1/11/2019
Today we take a look at the small-D anti-democratic power grabs implemented by many GOP-led legislatures during the lame-duck session with the exp...
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#1239 Building the future of an international progressivism from 2019-01-08T09:00
Air Date: 1/8/2019
Today we take a look at the burgeoning call for progressivism to look beyond national borders to create policies, solidarity and power that spans, ...
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#1238 Bailouts, Tea Parties, Torture, Fear, Health Care and Citizens United (A Look Back at 2009) from 2019-01-04T23:00
Air Date: 1/4/2018
Today we take a look back at the year 2009 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn....
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#562 Occupy My Heart from 2019-01-02T13:00
Air Date: 1/4/2012
Today, From WCPT Radio, Playwright W. C. Turk, producer Greg Alexander and the Occupy Players we hear a presentation of Occupy My Heart: A Revoluti...
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#784 Christmas in black and white (War on Christmas™) (Repost) from 2018-12-25T13:00
Air Date: 12/21/2013
You didn't think the War on Christmas™ could get any more exciting but then someone decided to bring race into the mix and the whole thing blew sky h...
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#1237 Understanding the Yellow Vests protest from 2018-12-22T01:00
Air Date: 12/21/2018
Today we take a look at the Yellow Vests protest in France to understand what they are, how they started and what implications they have for the ...
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#1236 The War on Christmas™ 2018 from 2018-12-19T03:21:14
Air Date: 12/18/2018
Today, as we do each year, we take a look at the current state of the War on Christmas™ but with more of a historical focus on how we got here Listen
#1235 A Counterbalance to Canonization (The Political Life of George H.W. Bush) from 2018-12-14T13:00
Air Date: 12/14/2018
Today we take a look critically at the life and times of George H.W. Bush
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#1234 Neoliberalism and the fascism it breeds (Brazilian Election) from 2018-12-11T13:00
Air Date: 12/11/2018
Today we take a look at the election of a true neofascist to be president of Brazil and some of the economic and political realities that lead us...
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#1233 The US-backed war fueling the worlds worst humanitarian crisis from 2018-12-07T14:00
Air Date: 12/7/2018
Today we take a look at the ongoing war in Yemen including its origins, multitude of players, the US supporting that is helping drive the worlds w...
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#1232 Understanding our last chance to save ourselves from 2018-12-04T09:00
Air Date: 12/4/2018
Today we take a look at the two major recent climate change reports that were released and some of the new energy arriving in Congress determined ...
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#1231 A new rise of hatred for an old target (Anti-Semitism) from 2018-11-30T09:00
Air Date: 11/30/2018
Today we take a look at the history and present of anti-semitism in America
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#1230 Thanksgiving and cultural heritage from 2018-11-27T13:00
Air Date: 11/27/2018
Today we take a look at the literal and figurative bloody messes of the history of Thanksgiving and the identities of native peoples
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#1230 Thanksgiving and cultural heritage from 2018-11-27T13:00
Air Date: 11/27/2018
Today we take a look at the literal and figurative bloody messes of the history of Thanksgiving and the identities of native peoples
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#1155 Leisure, Desperation or a Reorientation (The Future of Work) (Repost) from 2018-11-23T11:00
Air Date: 1/2/2018
Today we take a look at a few different visions of what the future holds for our labor market and some policies we should be putting in place to set th...
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#1229 The politics of anger from the Founding Fathers to the Women's Movement from 2018-11-20T15:00
Air Date: 11/20/2018
Today we take a look at the gendered nature of anger and how the anger of women is feared as a potentially revolutionary force
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#1228 Why men will be better off without the patriarchy from 2018-11-16T13:00
Air Date: 11/16/2018
Today we take a look at the system of patriarchy from the perspective of how it negatively impacts men in our culture, thereby demonstrating the ...
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#1228 Why men will be better off without the patriarchy from 2018-11-16T13:00
Air Date: 11/16/2018
Today we take a look at the system of patriarchy from the perspective of how it negatively impacts men in our culture, thereby demonstrating the ...
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#1227 Stochastic Terrorism and the Bully Pulpit from 2018-11-13T13:00
Air Date: 11/13/2018
Today we take a look at rising of right-wing terrorism in the US and the unmistakable link to the violent rhetoric and extreme policies of right-...
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#1226 Understanding the toxic US-Saudi Arabian relationship from 2018-11-09T23:00
Air Date: 11/9/2018
Today we take a look at the stunningly consistent history of the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia. A relationship born out of a need f...
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#1225 The origins of the libertarian plan to remake America from 2018-11-06T09:00
Air Date: 11/6/2018
Today we take a look at the movement behind the anti-government, pro-wealthy campaign to remake America that dates back much farther than the Koch...
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#1224 Fixing the underlying mechanism of our democracy (Election Integrity) from 2018-11-02T22:00
Air Date: 11/2/2018
Today we take a look at some of the various ways our election system is vulnerable to tampering and hacking from within and without and how it pos...
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#1223 How and why conspiracy theories infiltrate our politics from 2018-10-30T08:00
Air Date: 10/30/2018
Today we take a look at the phenomenon of conspiracy theories from several different angles including psychology, political necessity and some of...
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#1222 A crisis of illegitimacy of our institutions from 2018-10-26T21:00
Air Date: 10/26/2018
Today we take a look at the crumbling trust in the Supreme Court in the wake of the Kavanaugh confirmation, not to mention the undemocratic elect...
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#1221 Strategies to take back power for the left from 2018-10-23T07:00
Air Date: 10/23/2018
Today we take a look at various strategies, some institutional and some organizational, for the left to take back power and steer the country bac...
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#1220 Fighting the Dark Money Machine from 2018-10-19T09:00
Air Date: 10/19/2018
Today we take a look at the Koch brothers and the movement they spawned to better understand exactly how to fight back
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#1219 How the GOP became the most destructive force in the world from 2018-10-16T08:00
Air Date: 10/16/2018
Today we take a look at the distant and recent history of conservatism in America and beyond and follow the steps that have led to their rejectio...
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#1218 Kavanaugh forced upon America (Supreme Court) from 2018-10-12T22:00
Air Date: 10/12/2018
Today we take a look at the process and conclusion of Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court and how the whole spectacle, top to bot...
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#1217 The monopoly that ate our economy (Amazon) from 2018-10-09T12:00
Air Date: 10/9/2018
Today we take a look at the monopolistic practices of Amazon with a focus on their effects on labor and wages in America
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#1216 Taking a closer look at Columbus Day from 2018-10-05T22:00
Air Date: 10/5/2018
Today we take a look at the rarely-told, real legacy of Christopher Columbus and some of the reverberations from his actions that can still be fel...
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#1216 Taking a closer look at Columbus Day from 2018-10-05T22:00
Air Date: 10/5/2018
Today we take a look at the rarely-told, real legacy of Christopher Columbus and some of the reverberations from his actions that can still be fel...
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#1215 Demonizing welfare to divide and conquer from 2018-10-03T10:00
Air Date: 10/2/2018
Today we take a look at the fact that welfare technically no longer exists in America except as a dog whistle term used to push an ideology that d...
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#1214 The long history of racial voter disenfranchisement from 2018-09-28T08:00
Air Date: 9/28/2018
Today we take a look at the long legacy of racially-based voter disenfranchisement from Reconstruction right up to today and the many, many forms ...
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#1213 Ten Years On (The Financial Crisis and Disastrous Recovery) from 2018-09-25T12:00
Air Date: 9/25/2018
Today we take a look at where we stand, now ten years on from the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008. Inequality has spiked, the banks are m...
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#1212 Feudalism with Dinner (Our Culture of Tipping) from 2018-09-21T07:30
Air Date: 9/21/2018
Today we take a look at the economics, sexism and racism embedded in the restaurant industry, largely due to the practice of tipping.
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#1211 Corporate Monopoly and Political Power from 2018-09-18T10:00
Air Date: 9/18/2018
Today we take a look at the current state of the centuries-old fight against the monopolization of economic and political power and how these forc...
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#1210 Brett Kavanaugh and the Imperial Presidency (Supreme Court) from 2018-09-14T08:00
Air Date: 9/14/2018
Today we take a look at the confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh, his stance on several critical issues and his threat to democratic values and...
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#1209 Being part of the solution (How to argue your values) from 2018-09-11T10:00
Air Date: 9/11/2018
Today we take a look at some strategies to and reasons why we need to have better political conversations
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#1208 Collective power through solidarity (Unions) from 2018-09-07T08:00
Air Date: 9/7/2018
Today we take a look at several of the ways that average people benefit from collective action including unionization, class action lawsuits and po...
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#1207 Bleeding us to death (Health Care Costs) from 2018-09-04T08:00
Air Date: 9/4/2018
Today we take a look at many of the underlying reasons that health care in America is so expensive and how those who benefit from the status quo wo...
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#1206 The war on journalism, truth and democracy itself from 2018-08-31T08:00
Air Date: 8/31/2018
Today we take a look at some of the tactics and ramifications of Trump's all-out war with journalism which is his strategy to undermine the most p...
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#1205 The multi-front war on the environment and our health from 2018-08-28T08:00
Air Date: 8/28/2018
Today we take a look at just some of the many ways the Trump administration is systematically attacking the environment and our health to pave the...
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#1204 The past, present and future of international trade from 2018-08-24T22:00
Air Date: 8/24/2018
Today we take a look at some of the historical context for the dynamics of international trade, some progressive ideas about managing the domestic...
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#1203 The causes and dangers of the international rise of the right from 2018-08-21T22:00
Air Date: 8/21/2018
Today we take a look at some of the reasons behind the rise of right-wing movements around the world but also at some of the various shapes they'r...
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#1202 The threats against reproductive justice - past, present and future from 2018-08-17T16:00
Air Date: 8/17/2018
Today we take a look at the threats to reproductive justice everywhere, from the newest Supreme Court nominee to the entire long and storied histo...
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#1201 Dehumanizing and abusing the outsider for political gain (Immigration) from 2018-08-10T22:00
Air Date: 8/10/2018
Today we take a look at some of the historical context that sheds light on our current immigration debate by showing that there is essentially not...
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#1200 The Democratic autopsy and the progressive path forward from 2018-08-07T22:00
Air Date: 8/07/2018
Today we take a look at a few of the reasons the Democrats went from controlling both houses of Congress and the presidency 10 years ago to being ...
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#1126 Explaining the concept you need to understand, Neoliberal Economics (Encore) from 2018-08-03T22:00
Air Date: 8/15/2017
Today we look at the origins, underpinnings and effects of neoliberal economic thinking and policies. #1, it has nothing to do with who Americans thin...
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#1199 Criticizing a society that breeds depression from 2018-07-31T22:00
Air Date: 7/31/2018
Today we take a look at some causes of depression that our society tends to look away from. Instead of focusing only on chemical imbalances, it se...
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#1198.5 Decolonization, Reconciliation and The Sacred Mountain - Presenting: Offshore from 2018-07-27T22:00
Air Date: 7/27/2018
Today I do something a little different and present to you (with permission) the entire first episode of the second season of the outstanding podcast,...
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#1198 All we have to fear is fear itself (Our Culture of Fear) from 2018-07-24T22:00
Air Date: 7/24/2018
Today we take a look at our current moment in history and the two basic paths that lay before us, one dominated by fear that drives a willingness ...
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#1125 Understanding and surviving the age of anger (Encore) from 2018-07-20T10:04:24
Air Date: 8/8/2017
Today we look at the forces causing a great deal and anger and upheaval all around the world, how that anger is being misdirected and what we can do in...
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#1197 Showing up at the last minute to fight for the Supreme Court from 2018-07-17T22:00
Air Date: 7/17/2018
Today we take a look at the history of what led us to be on the brink of the most conservative Supreme Court in 90 years, some of the details as t...
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#1196 Building a media that supports rather than undermines democracy from 2018-07-13T22:00
Air Date: 7/13/2018
Today we take a look at the media landscape and how it enables rather than challenges our horrific political status quo and we also hear suggested...
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#1195 Criminalizing protest with civility as a cudgel from 2018-07-10T22:00
Air Date: 7/10/2018
Today we take a look at the attempts to distract with calls for civility and the attempts to suppress dissent with various bans and impediments to...
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#1123 Preparing for the end of the world, or at least capitalism (Encore) from 2018-07-07T08:35:08
Air Date: 8/1/2017
Today we look at the state of capitalism, the logical arguments for its inevitable demise and the evidence that the end may more nigh than ever before<...
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#1194 The why and the how to make voting cool again (Elections) from 2018-07-03T22:00
Air Date: 7/3/2018
Today we take a look at the movement underway to take back power for progressive ideas in this country from a variety of perspectives all working t...
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#1193 Fighting for a representative democracy (voting Rights and Gerrymandering) from 2018-06-29T22:00
Air Date: 6/29/2018
Today we take a look at the multi-pronged campaign to prevent as many people from voting as possible and what we can do about it
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#1192 Fighting for Single Payer and against our neoliberal health system from 2018-06-26T22:00
Air Date: 6/26/2018
Today we take a look at the misguided transformation of our thinking about health care that causes us to accept the idea of it being a ma...
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#1121 This episode is worth your time (Culture and Technology) (Encore) from 2018-06-22T22:00
Air Date: 7/21/2017
Today we look at the technology that massively influences how we spend our time and hear lots of advice on how we can begin to take back control
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#1191 Stumbling toward peace on the Korean Peninsula from 2018-06-19T22:00
Air Date: 6/19/2018
Today we take a look at where we are in the negotiation process with North Korea and how we got here
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#1190 Hurricane Maria laid bare the colonialism and capitalism in Puerto Rico from 2018-06-15T22:00
Air Date: 6/15/2018
Today we take a look at the high toll Puerto Rico is paying, in both money and lives, for the triple disasters of colonialism, Hurricane Maria and...
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#1189 Our dehumanizing, traumatizing, child-abusing immigration system from 2018-06-12T22:00
Air Date: 6/12/2018
Today we take a look at the absolute horror show that is the US immigration system. Understanding that it was bad before but has been revved up to...
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#1120 Stopping and building at the same time (Progressive Movement) (Encore) from 2018-06-10T09:09:21
Air Date: 7/28/2017
Today we look at the woeful state of the Democratic Party and the strategy to bring them back from the brink
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#1188 Impoverished, imprisoned and invisible (Disability Justice) from 2018-06-05T22:00
Air Date: 6/5/2018
Today we take a look at some of the adversity facing disabled people from labor rights to health care accessibility to incarceration
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#1187 Taking the long view on Trump and Russia from 2018-06-01T22:00
Air Date: 6/1/2018
Today we take a rare sojourn into the world of Trump's seemingly endless corruption in business and life with a focus on his long history with Russ...
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#1186 Confronting the Legacy of the Confederacy from 2018-05-29T22:00
Air Date: 5/29/2018
Today we take a look at the legacy of the Confederacy, the monuments and white supremacy it left behind and the racial terror institutionalized in...
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#1186 Confronting the Legacy of the Confederacy from 2018-05-29T22:00
Air Date: 5/29/2018
Today we take a look at the legacy of the Confederacy, the monuments and white supremacy it left behind and the racial terror institutionalized in...
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#1110 The rise of hate in America (White Supremacy) (Encore) from 2018-05-25T22:00
Air Date: 6/09/2017
Today we take a look at some of the structures of white supremacy and the moment in the sun it is currently enjoying
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#1185 Putting the politics of the left back together (Elections) from 2018-05-22T22:00
Air Date: 5/22/2018
Today we take a look at the importance of the upcoming mid-term elections and the necessary danger of infighting amongst the left
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#1184 Lighting the fuse in the Middle East (Iran and Israel) from 2018-05-18T22:00
Air Date: 5/18/2018
Today we take a look at the context and history that preceded the US cancellation of the Iran nuclear agreement
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#1183 Debating proposals for a next-generation economy (Social Benefit Programs) from 2018-05-15T22:00
Air Date: 5/8/2018
Today we take a look at both the policies of a Federally-Guaranteed Jobs program and a Universal Basic Income and hear arguments for and against ea...
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#1119 The inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men (Encore) from 2018-05-12T07:53:18
Air Date: 7/12/2017
Today we look at many of our misconceptions of the nature of poverty, the interconnectedness of economics with all aspects of life and some suggestion...
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#1182 Wrongheaded laws and prosecutors (Injustice System) from 2018-05-08T22:00
Air Date: 5/8/2018
Today we take a look at how we came to have some of the mandatory minimum laws that we do, how they came out of a sense of desperation from an underser...
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#1181 The Red-State Revolt (Teachers Strikes) from 2018-05-04T22:00
Air Date: 5/4/2018
Today we take a look at the falling dominoes of rebellion and demands for justice in the form of teachers strikes as they go from one educationally dec...
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#1180 A Bhutanese Travelogue from 2018-05-01T22:00
Air Date: 5/1/2018
Today I tell stories about Bhutan including personal experiences and what I can about the cultural and political past, present and future of the countr...
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#1108 A conservative solution to solving climate change (Encore with New Ending) from 2018-04-28T18:33:52
Air Date: 5/30/2017
Today we look at some conservatives engaged in the fight against climate change and their best policy proposal to get the job done
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#1179 Stories from the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan from 2018-04-20T22:00
Air Date: 4/20/2018
Today we take a look at some of the highlights of the Kingdom of Bhutan including the most famous of their exports, Gross National Happiness and many ...
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#1178 Economic Evolution (Capitalism, Consumerism and Beyond) from 2018-04-17T22:00
Air Date: 4/17/2018
Today we take a look at the debate between individualism and varying forms of collectivism, the benefits and drawbacks of consumerism and some philoso...
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#1113 Tax cuts and deregulation have failed before and will fail again (Encore) from 2018-04-14T16:50:50
Air Date: 6/20/2017
Today we take a look at the legacy of conservative economics in Kansas, the new federal budget being pushed that would echo the Kansas disaster, dereg...
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#1177 What society does not know, nor want to know about Martin Luther King from 2018-04-10T22:00
Air Date: 4/10/2018
Today we take a look at some of the lesser-known sides of Martin Luther King's life and legacy, not just about his radicalism and focus on labor right...
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#1176 The Gun Debate (is less of a debate than we think) from 2018-04-06T22:00
Air Date: 4/6/2018
Today, in response to a conservative listener who sent in a voicemail about gun culture and policy, the entire episode is a point by point response to ...
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#1175 You are the product in the internet economy (Facebook) from 2018-04-03T22:00
Air Date: 4/3/2018
Today we take a look at the latest revelations about the (mis)use of Facebook's data in an attempt to influence US elections, some of those who've seen...
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#1106 If you can’t beat them, suppress them (Voting Rights) (Encore) from 2018-03-30T21:50:24
Air Date: 5/23/2017
Today we look at the current state of voting rights and the full press efforts being made to expand voter suppression far and wide across the country<...
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#1174 Renewed and repackaged racism (Drug War) from 2018-03-27T22:00
Air Date: 3/27/2018
Today we take a look at the blossoming of the renewed efforts of the conservative drug warriors
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#1173 Think transgenerationally, act simply (Culture and Environment) from 2018-03-23T22:00
Air Date: 3/23/2018
Today we take a look at the structures, barriers and incentives standing between us and simpler, more fulfilling, happier and more environmentally sus...
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#1172 The cultural legacy of the way The West was won (Gun Culture) from 2018-03-20T22:00
Air Date: 3/20/2018
Today we take a look at the culture behind the gun culture in the US in an attempt to better understand it and to glean new ideas on how to fix it
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#1171 Debt, profit and modern-day slavery (Injustice System) from 2018-03-16T22:00
Air Date: 3/16/2018
Today we take a look at the catastrophic point where cutting taxes, racism, capitalism, immigration policy and our punitive-rather-than-rehabilitative...
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#1109 Finding the path forward for Democrats and the progressive movement (Encore) from 2018-03-13T23:52:01
Air Date: 6/6/2017
Today we look at where the Democratic party went wrong that led them to their current disempowered state and some of the arguments for why moving in a ...
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#1170 Understanding the causes and cures of the opioid crisis from 2018-03-09T23:00
Air Date: 3/9/2018
Today we take a look at Trump's half-hearted and misguided attempt to address the opioid crisis as well as give some understanding to the history o...
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#1169 Playing with Winter (Threat and Effects of Nuclear War) from 2018-03-06T23:00
Air Date: 3/6/2018
Today we use Trump's threats to commit genocide in North Korea as the jumping off point to take a look at the process of launching and the probable...
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#1168 Understanding the Rise of the Right from 2018-03-02T23:00
Air Date: 3/2/2018
Today we take a look at the rise of the right from Trumpism in the US to the far-right parties gaining steam in Europe and beyond
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#1167 The kids are alright and they are leading the way again (Parkland Shooting) from 2018-02-27T23:00
Air Date: 2/27/2018
Today we take a look at the youth-lead response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as well as some history of youth-protest m...
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#1166 How to create a happier society and why the GOP refuses (Social Benefits) from 2018-02-20T23:00
Air Date: 2/20/2018
Today we respond to the recent Trump budget proposal with some economic theories of our own, a description of how we could make ourselves happier ...
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#1165 The flip side of the coin (Palestine) from 2018-02-16T23:00
Air Date: 2/16/2018
Today, after having recently looked at a few of the details of Israel, we take a look at what's happening on the other side of the border, in Pale...
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#1164 The context of the Korean Peninsula from 2018-02-13T23:00
Air Date: 2/13/2018
Today we take a look at the history and context of the Korean Peninsula, how it was split in two in the first place and how self-perpetuating acti...
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#1163 Strange Bedfellows (Israel) from 2018-02-06T23:00
Air Date: 2/6/2018
Today we take a look at Israel from a variety of angles including what they do, who supports them and why
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#1162 The economics of immigration and demonization from 2018-02-02T23:00
Air Date: 2/2/2018
Today we take a look at the economics of immigration, both the good and the bad, both the domestic and international
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#1161 Privacy, what is it good for? (Privacy Rights) from 2018-01-31T00:00
Air Date: 1/30/2018
Today we take a look at part of the history of our privacy rights, who they protect the most and what's happening to them recently
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#1160 Backlashes (#MeToo and the Women's Movement) from 2018-01-26T23:00
Air Date: 1/26/2018
Today we take a look at some of the nuances of the #MeToo movement and the predictable backlash to it as well as the backlash to Trump in the form...
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#1159 Voters need to pick their reps, not the other way around (Gerrymandering) from 2018-01-19T23:00
Air Date: 1/19/2018
Today we take a look at one of the most important and least understood problems with our broken democracy, gerrymandering, including some ideas to...
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#1158 What America refuses to remember about Martin Luther King Jr. from 2018-01-16T23:00
Air Date: 1/16/2018
Today we take a look at the legacy of Martin Luther King that some people prefer to forget and most people never learned about. In fact, it is lik...
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#1157 Policy without humanity (Immigration) from 2018-01-13T23:00
Air Date: 1/13/2018
Today we take a look at a bit of the history, and some of the recent developments of, the debate over immigration policy and the people affected b...
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#1156 Women of color get the job done (Racism and Elections) from 2018-01-05T23:00
Air Date: 1/5/2018
Today we take a look at some of the challenges and triumphs for women of color and what thanks they should get in return
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#1155 Leisure, Desperation or a Reorientation (The Future of Work) from 2018-01-02T23:00
Air Date: 1/2/2018
Today we take a look at a few different visions of what the future holds for our labor market and some policies we should be putting in place to se...
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#1154 An election, a crash and echos of the past and future (A look back at 2008) from 2017-12-29T23:00
Air Date: 12/29/2017
Today we take a look back to 2008 in our third annual 10-years-hence retrospective spectacular!
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#1153 The War on Christmas™ 2017 from 2017-12-19T23:00
Air Date: 12/19/2017
Today we look at the current state of the War on Christmas™. Has it already been won by the forces of Trumpism? Do we need a "Surge"? Are we gett...
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#1152 Rise of the oligarchy (Money in Politics) from 2017-12-15T23:00
Air Date: 12/15/2017
Today we look at the history and current state of rich people seeking to undermine democratic rule by the people in favor of oligarchy f...
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#1151 Resuscitating the anti-trust movement (Monopolies) from 2017-12-08T23:00
Air Date: 12/8/2017
Today we look at the rebirth of the anti-trust movement in a struggle to save democracy in the face of a new era of worldwide corporate tech monop...
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#1150 The Price of Free (Silicon Valley and Big Data) from 2017-12-05T23:00
Air Date: 12/5/2017
Today we look at some of the hidden ways that big tech is influencing our lives personally and societally
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#1149 The loss of liberty at the hands of concentrated power (Media and Net Neutrality) from 2017-12-01T23:00
Air Date: 12/1/2017
Today we look at the inevitable results of a lax approach to anti-trust legislation: the consolidation of corporate power and money used to buy in...
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#1148 Understanding the past to rebuild for the future (Democratic Party) from 2017-11-28T23:00
Air Date: 11/28/2017
Today we look at recent revelations about the conduct of the DNC during the 2016 campaign, a new Democratic Autopsy report that strives to shine ...
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#964 History of the Christian Right (Religion) (Encore) from 2017-11-24T23:00
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#1147 The thrill and horror of the Harvey Weinstein Effect from 2017-11-21T23:00
Air Date: 11/21/2017
Today we look at gender-based harassment and assault, the revolution in thinking on the subject we are currently in the midst of and some ideas t...
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#1146 An Unmitigated Disaster (The GOP Tax Plan) from 2017-11-17T23:00
Air Date: 11/17/2017
Today we look at just a few of the many ways that the GOP tax plan is intended to help the well-off, harm the needy and defile a pristine wildern...
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#1145 A government small enough to get inside your body (Reproductive Justice) from 2017-11-11T23:00
Air Date: 11/11/2017
Today we look at the many ways conservatives across the country are systematically chipping away at the rights of all people who require access t...
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#1144 Denying and deconstructing with all their might (Environmental Regulations) from 2017-11-07T23:00
Air Date: 11/07/2017
Today we look at the systematic deconstruction of the environmental regulatory infrastructure at the hands of anti-environment radicals, otherwis...
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#1143 Strategies for a winning coalition (Progressive Movement) from 2017-11-03T22:00
Air Date: 11/03/2017
Today we look at the battle at the heart of the rift in the progressive movement over strategies on the proper direction to go from here. As is s...
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#1142 Long past time to boycott the NFL from 2017-10-27T22:00
Air Date: 10/27/2017
Today we look at some of the recent and no-so-recent political problems plaguing the NFL including the protests against police abuse, institution...
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#922 A crisis of culture (Capitalism) from 2017-10-24T22:00
Air Date: 5/15/2015
Today we take a hard look at modern-day civilization and culture and ponder what we could do to make things better
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#1141 The perils of power and powerlessness (Toxic Masculinity) from 2017-10-20T22:00
Air Date: 10/20/2017
Today we look at the dangers that (primarily) white men face on multiple points along the power spectrum and how dangerous forms of masculinity l...
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#1140 Smoke, mirrors and myth (Tax Cuts for the Wealthy) from 2017-10-17T22:00
Air Date: 10/17/2017
Today we look at the philosophy, tricks of the trade and long-term strategy behind the GOP's never-ending quest to grant more tax cuts to corpora...
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#1139 In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting from 2017-10-13T22:00
Air Date: 10/13/2017
Today we look at the usual pattern of political and media theatre that occur after every major shooting incident and some of the facts that explain w...
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#873 The other new Jim Crow (Voting rights) (Repost) from 2017-10-10T22:00
Air Date: 11/04/2014
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#1138 Condemning, Defending and Rebuilding the Media from 2017-10-06T22:00
Air Date: 10/06/2017
Today we look at the inadequacy, the potential, structures and the humanity of the corporate media
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#1137 A perfect blend of colonialism, racism and disaster capitalism (Puerto Rico) from 2017-10-03T22:00
Air Date: 10/03/2017
Today we look at the current and ongoing disaster befalling the US territory of Puerto Rico that all began long, long before the most recent hurr...
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#1136 Doing the Right Thing After Exhausting All Other Options (Medicare For All) from 2017-09-29T22:00
Air Date: 09/29/2017
Today we look at the Bernie-Sanders-lead movement to implement the most comprehensive universal health insurance system in the world
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#1135 Understanding the Effects of Immigration from 2017-09-26T22:00
Air Date: 09/26/2017
Today we look at the economic and criminal implications of immigration policy
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#1134 Unnatural Disasters (Hurricanes and Humans) from 2017-09-19T22:00
Air Date: 09/19/2017
Today we look not so much at hurricanes and the climate science behind them (though we touch on that as well) but focus more on what we can see m...
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#1133 Understanding Authoritarianism from 2017-09-15T22:00
Air Date: 09/15/2017
Today we look at the history and structures of authoritarianism and explore how they relate to at Trump campaign and administration
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#1132 800,000 Hostages (Immigration and DACA) from 2017-09-12T22:00
Air Date: 09/12/2017
Today we look at the combination of racism and cold political calculations that went into the decision to hold 800,000 DACA recipients hostage in...
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#1131 Inflicting pleasure (Media and Propaganda) from 2017-09-08T22:00
Air Date: 09/08/2017
Today we look at our vapid media landscape and see how it lead, some would say inevitably, to the election of someone like Donald Trump
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#1130 Schoolyard bully with nuclear weapons (Foreign Policy) from 2017-09-05T22:00
Air Date: 09/05/2017
Today we look at just a couple of the major international conflicts Donald Trump is severely under-qualified to navigate
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#902 Rethinking the fundamentals of drugs and addiction (Drug War) from 2017-09-01T22:00
Air Date: 02/27/2015
Today we take a look at not only the destructive forces at work within the drug war but also look deeper at the causes of addiction and drug abus...
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#1129 The free press has been bought (Corporate Media and Billionaires) from 2017-08-29T22:00
Air Date: 08/29/2017
Today we look at the systemic problem with advertiser-driven, for-profit media and how billionaires have begun exploiting the system to their own...
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#1128 Confronting fascism in the land of free speech from 2017-08-25T22:00
Air Date: 08/25/2017
Today we look at the constant struggle between the freedom to speak and the necessary limits placed on that freedom due to the rights of others t...
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#1127 White supremacy requires violence and there is more to come (Charlottesville) from 2017-08-22T22:00
Air Date: 08/22/2017
Today we look at what may be the violent death throes of white supremacy. As Trump and the GOP embolden white supremacists to action and violence...
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#870 Don't police me, bro! (Feminism) from 2017-08-18T22:00
Air Date: 10/21/2014
Today we take a look at a variety of ways that (mostly) men attempt to police the actions and choices of (mostly) women, causing nothing but dama...
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#1126 Explaining the concept you need to understand, Neoliberal Economics from 2017-08-15T22:00
Air Date: 08/15/2017
Today we look at the origins, underpinnings, and effects of neoliberal economic thinking and policies. #1, it has nothing to do with who American...
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#934 The long shadow of southern white supremacy (Racism) from 2017-08-11T22:00
Today we take a look at the history of race and white supremacy in America to understand the incredibly loud echoes of the past that continue to reverberate strongly in modern society
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#1125 Understanding and surviving the age of anger from 2017-08-08T22:00
Air Date: 08/8/2017
Today we look at the forces causing a great deal and anger and upheaval all around the world, how that anger is being misdirected and what we can ...
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#1124 Searching for a problem to implement a terrible solution (Voting Rights) from 2017-08-04T22:00
Air Date: 08/4/2017
Today we revisit the old idea that if voting mattered they wouldn’t let you do it and the fact that that is exactly what they’re trying to do. Bet...
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#1123 Preparing for the end of the world, or at least capitalism from 2017-08-01T22:00
Air Date: 08/1/2017
Today we look at the state of capitalism, the logical arguments for its inevitable demise and the evidence that the end may be more nigh than ever...
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#1122 Real-Life Alternatives to the Prison/Industrial Complex from 2017-07-28T22:00
Air Date: 07/28/2017
Today we look at the cause and state of our prison system and hear some suggestions on ways to fundamentally reform it
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#925 A bad idea for all the reasons (Death Penalty) from 2017-07-25T22:00
Air Date: 05/26/2015
Today we take a look at the US death penalty from all angles. Cultural norms? We’re an outlier. Protecting the innocent? We kill innocent people....
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#1121 This episode is worth your time (Culture and Technology) from 2017-07-21T22:00
Air Date: 07/21/2017
Today we look at the technology that massively influences how we spend our time and hear lots of advice on how we can begin to take back control<...
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#1120 Stopping and building at the same time (Progressive Movement) from 2017-07-18T22:00
Air Date: 07/18/2017
Today we look at the woeful state of the Democratic Party and the strategy to bring them back from the brink
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New Announcement + Rerun: #777 Laboring in badly-designed machines (Labor Movement) from 2017-07-14T22:00
Air Date: 11/25/2013
A look at what we need to remember to appreciate about the labor movement. Is the American Dream possible anymore as we seem to be racing to the ...
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#1119 The inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men from 2017-07-11T22:00
Air Date: 07/11/2017
Today we look at many of our misconceptions of the nature of poverty, the interconnectedness of economics with all aspects of life and some sugge...
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#1118 A look in at the TERF wars (Feminism and Trans Rights) from 2017-07-07T22:00
Air Date: 07/07/2017
Today we look at gender dysphoria, transitioning, de-transitioning and the various perspectives on these phenomena
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#1117 We were founded to resist corruption, now it’s all we know from 2017-07-04T22:00
Air Date: 07/04/2017
Today we take a look at the history and present state of corruption in America, both for the special case of Donald Trump and the system-wide cor...
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#1116 The evolution of policing (Injustice System) from 2017-06-30T22:00
Air Date: 06/30/2017
Today we take a look at some of the problems with modern policing and how we got to now
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#1115 An enormous tax cut for the rich disguised as health care from 2017-06-27T22:00
Air Date: 06/27/2017
Today we take a look at the enormous amount of damage the latest version of the GOPs vision of health care would inflict on the nation and keep o...
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#1114 Running the world with an inferiority complex (Foreign Policy) from 2017-06-23T22:00
Air Date: 06/23/2017
Today we take a look at the state of foreign affairs as Trump trips and stubbles his way through his learning curve
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#1113 Tax cuts and deregulation have failed before and will fail again from 2017-06-20T22:00
Air Date: 06/20/2017
Today we take a look at the legacy of conservative economics in Kansas, the new federal budget being pushed that would echo the Kansas disaster, ...
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(2017/06/16) So, this whole Russia thing, right? from 2017-06-16T22:00
Edition #1112
Today we take a high-level look at the Trump/Russia controversy and examine how we should and shouldn’t be reacting to it.
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(2017/06/13) Hamstringing American innovation and restricting growth industries from 2017-06-13T22:00
Edition #1111
Today we take a look at the ways America is being left behind by the rest of the world in the future of energy production thanks to the climate denialis...
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(2017/06/09) The rise of hate in America (White Supremacy) from 2017-06-09T22:00
Edition #1110
Today we take a look at some of the structures of white supremacy and the moment in the sun it is currently enjoying
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(2017/06/06) Finding the path forward for Democrats and the progressive movement from 2017-06-06T22:00
Edition #1109
Today we look at where the Democratic party went wrong that led them to their current disempowered state and some of the arguments for why moving in a p...
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(2017/05/30) A conservative solution to solving climate change from 2017-05-30T22:00
Edition #1108
Today we look at some conservatives engaged in the fight against climate change and their best policy proposal to get the job done
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(2017/05/26) Another genuine attempt to understand Trump conservatives from 2017-05-26T22:00
Edition #1107
Today we look again at some of the underlying forces that shape the modern conservative mindset, including an answer (at long last!) to how anyone could...
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(2017/05/23) If you can’t beat them, suppress them (Voting Rights) from 2017-05-23T22:00
Edition #1106
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(2017/05/19) The Surge comes to the War on Drugs from 2017-05-19T22:00
Edition #1105
Today we look at the impact Jeff Sessions and the entire Republican government is having on drug policy in America and how we should be addressing destr...
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(2017/05/16) What Trumpcare would mean and how we can do better from 2017-05-16T22:00
Edition #1104
Today we look at some of the specifics of the health care bill that Republicans passed through the House of Representatives including it’s impact on pre...
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(2017/05/12) Freedom isn’t free, it’s paid for with your taxes from 2017-05-12T22:00
Edition #1103
Today we look at the Trump administrations proposed tax plan, a progressive alternative for how we should be spending our money and some of the underlyi...
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(2017/05/09) Racism built a system we all suffer under from 2017-05-09T22:00
Edition #1102
Today we look at the ways we are all adversely effected by the racist structures of our society and examine the ways liberals helped build these systems...
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(2017/05/05) Free speech in an age of fascists from 2017-05-05T22:00
Edition #1101
Today we look at some of the many layers of debate around freedom of speech, the freedom to protest, violent vs non-violent resistance and the fight aga...
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(2017/05/02) Building a strong society and an innovative economy (Earned Benefits) from 2017-05-02T22:00
Edition #1100
Today we look at the myriad benefits of earned benefits and why we should be looking to greatly expand our social benefits programs rather than cut them...
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(2017/04/28) The science of the times from 2017-04-28T22:00
Edition #1099
Today we look at the importance of science in our lives and public policy and also at the Trump administration’s drive to stop science in it’s tracks Listen
(2017/0425) Trump and Republicans take aim at women (Reproductive Justice) from 2017-04-25T22:00
Edition #1098
Today we look at the current state of abortion politics here and abroad and explain how the Republicans intend to hurt women and increase the number of ...
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(2017/04/21) Good-Natured (Economics and Culture) from 2017-04-21T22:00
Edition #1097
Today we make the argument that people are naturally good and that society and economists should treat them that way
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(2017/04/21) Good-Natured (Economics and Culture) from 2017-04-21T22:00
Edition #1097
Today we make the argument that people are naturally good and that society and economists should treat them that way
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(2017/04/18) The oligarch who decided to buy the White House (Corruption) from 2017-04-18T22:00
Edition #1096
Today we look at some of the lesser-known characters in the right-wing oligarchy who now own the White House and Supreme Court
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(2017/04/18) The oligarch who decided to buy the White House (Corruption) from 2017-04-18T22:00
Edition #1096
Today we look at some of the lesser-known characters in the right-wing oligarchy who now own the White House and Supreme Court
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(2017/04/14) Reckless Empire and the Forever War (Foreign Policy) from 2017-04-14T22:00
Edition #1095
Today we look at a Trump’s foreign policy so far, question the prevailing narrative and look back at how we got to now
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(2017/04/11) An identity group that any one of us might join at any time (Disability Rights) from 2017-04-11T22:00
Edition #1094
Today we look at a variety of ways to bring the disability rights movement into the mainstream of media, advocacy and the world
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(2017/04/11) An identity group that any one of us might join at any time (Disability Rights) from 2017-04-11T22:00
Edition #1094
Today we look at a variety of ways to bring the disability rights movement into the mainstream of media, advocacy and the world
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(2017/04/07) The Exxon President goes to war with the planet (Climate) from 2017-04-07T22:00
Edition #1093
Today we look at Trump’s recent moves to dismantle Obama’s environmental legacy, the legal troubles he faces and the bright future that renewable energy...
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(2017/04/04) Under surveillance from all angles (Privacy Rights) from 2017-04-04T22:00
Edition #1092
Today we look at the ways in which both corporate and governmental institutions are looking to gain more and more access to your private data and commun...
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(2017/03/31) Progressives fighting on multiple fronts (The Resistance) from 2017-03-31T22:00
Edition #1091
Today we look at the multi-front political battles being waged for the heart of the progressive movement, women’s movement, the Democratic party and the...
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(2017/03/31) Progressives fighting on multiple fronts (The Resistance) from 2017-03-31T22:00
Edition #1091
Today we look at the multi-front political battles being waged for the heart of the progressive movement, women’s movement, the Democratic party and the...
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(2017/03/28) The corporatization of our schools (Education) from 2017-03-28T22:00
Edition #1090
Today we look at the confirmation of Betsy DeVos to head the Department of education and some of the ideological and historical context that brought us ...
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(2017/03/24) A Corporate Judicial Coup (Judge Gorsuch and the Supreme Court) from 2017-03-24T22:00
Edition #1089
Today we look at the hearings of Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch, how we got to here and what his possible placement on the court portends for our fu...
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(2017/03/21) Bracing for impact or burning up on reentry? (Trumpcare) from 2017-03-21T22:00
Edition #1088
Today we look at the rollout of Trumpcare including how we got here, the ideological challenges Republicans face in trying to repeal the ACA and the dir...
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(2017/03/14) Living in an empire of lies (Propaganda) from 2017-03-14T22:00
Edition #1087
Today we look at the mechanics and consequences of systemic lies and propaganda in an age of ignorance and anti-intellectualism
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(2017/03/14) Living in an empire of lies (Propaganda) from 2017-03-14T22:00
Edition #1087
Today we look at the mechanics and consequences of systemic lies and propaganda in an age of ignorance and anti-intellectualism
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(2017/03/10) Unleashing the demons (Anti-Semitism) from 2017-03-10T23:00
Edition #1086
Today we look at how the Trump campaign and presidency has emboldened those who would spew hatred or commit violence against Jews and others
(2017/03/07) A case against the myth of individualism (Culture) from 2017-03-07T23:00
Edition #1085
Today we look at the dangerous myths of individualism and the American Dream™, some of their origins and some of their consequences
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(2017/03/07) A case against the myth of individualism (Culture) from 2017-03-07T23:00
Edition #1085
Today we look at the dangerous myths of individualism and the American Dream™, some of their origins and some of their consequences
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(2017/03/03) Running the Ship-of-State Aground (Foreign Policy) from 2017-03-03T23:00
Edition #1084
Today we look at how Trump is currently running his foreign policy programs and where he’s planning to take it
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(2017/02/28) Trump’s immigration crackdown has begun from 2017-02-28T23:00
Edition #1083
Today we look at Trump’s new immigration crackdown and several of the reasons why it’s a bad idea
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(2017/02/24) The economics of our environment (Capitalism vs. the Climate) from 2017-02-24T23:00
Edition #1082
Today we look at the intersection of the climate and capitalism in the shadow of the most crony capitalist administration in American history
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(2017/02/21) Where the Democrats went wrong and how to bring them back from 2017-02-21T23:00
Edition #1081
Today we look at the past failings of the Democratic party over the past several decades that brought us to our current point and then look for ways to ...
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(2017/02/17) Corporate media’s fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump from 2017-02-17T23:00
Edition #1080
Today we look at the state of the corporate-controlled media in the age of Trump, how you can navigate those murky waters and what we can do to make it ...
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(2017/02/14) If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu (Trumpian Economics) from 2017-02-14T23:00
Edition #1079
Today we look at the plans being cooked up by Trump and the GOP to screw the people and enrich the corporations
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(2017/02/10) Unnecessary, ineffective and un-American (Muslim Ban) from 2017-02-10T23:00
Edition #1078
Today we lay out the story so far of Trump’s attempt to make good on his campaign promise to ban muslims from entering the country
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(2017/02/03) Witnessing an Emerging Autocracy (Trump’s America) from 2017-02-03T23:00
Edition #1077
Today we look briefly at Trump’s cabinet, his communication style, his inaugural speech and the foreboding nature of it all
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(2017/01/31) An equal and opposite reaction (Women’s March) from 2017-01-31T23:00
Edition #1076
Today we listen in on the women’s marches in DC and Baltimore and hear some of the thoughtful critiques of and hopes for the future of the feminist move...
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(2017/01/27) Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda from 2017-01-28T00:00
Edition #1075
Today I present the unabridged audiobook of Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda licensed under the Creative Commons Attributio...
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(2017/01/24) The corruption of Donald Trump from 2017-01-24T23:00
Edition #1074
Today we take a look at the conflicts of interest, broken laws and constitutional violations of the new administration
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(2017/01/20) A First Draft of President Obama’s Legacy from 2017-01-20T16:00
Edition #1073
Today we take a look at several aspects of Obama’s presidency, what marks he left behind and what he passes on to his successor
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(2017/01/17) A progressive vision for our economic future from 2017-01-17T23:00
Edition #1072
Today we take a look at the Democrats failure to present viable economic solutions and offer a new vision for where we should go from here
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(2017/01/17) A progressive vision for our economic future from 2017-01-17T23:00
Edition #1072
Today we take a look at the Democrats failure to present viable economic solutions and offer a new vision for where we should go from here
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(2017/01/13) First they came (Religious Liberty) from 2017-01-13T23:00
Edition #1071
Today we take a look at the threats to Muslim Americans and, frankly, Muslims around the world in the age of Trump
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(2017/01/10) Readying the wrecking ball (Reproductive and Health Rights) from 2017-01-10T23:00
Edition #1070
Today we take a look at the plans the GOP has for peoples ability to access and afford their reproductive and health rights
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(2017/01/06) Trump and our National Security State (Civil Rights) from 2017-01-06T23:00
Edition #1069
Today we take a look at the mechanics of our national security state that has been mostly installed or maintained over the past two presidencies and what Tru...
(2017/01/03) New congress, old war, scandals and the dawn of the climate movement (The best of 2007) from 2017-01-03T23:00
Edition #1068
Today we take a look back to 2007 in our second annual 10-years-hence retrospective spectacular!
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(2016/04/01) The battle to reorganize the economy (Sharing Economy vs. Coops) (Repost) from 2016-12-30T23:00
Edition #1003
Today we take a look at the raging battle for the soul of the new economy. The age of working at the factory for decades before retiring with a pension and g...
(2016/12/23) The War on Christmas™ Dispatch 2016 from 2016-12-23T23:00
Edition #1067
Today we look back on the decade-long War on Christmas™ to understand how we got to now as well as the uphill battle we Christmas Warriors now have in t...
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(2016/12/20) The economics of the greater good (Culture) from 2016-12-20T23:00
Edition #1066
Today we look at the economics of our society through fresh eyes and make the case for a smarter way to work that taps into the things that really matte...
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(2016/12/16) The fight for truth in a post-fact world (Media) from 2016-12-16T23:00
Edition #1065
Today we look at the problems with the media, so many problems, and what lessons we should learn in the wake of the election
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(2016/12/16) The fight for truth in a post-fact world (Media) from 2016-12-16T23:00
Edition #1065
Today we look at the problems with the media, so many problems, and what lessons we should learn in the wake of the election
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(2016/12/13) Desperate times, desperate measures (Voting Rights and the Electoral College) from 2016-12-13T23:00
Edition #1064
Today we look at the systematic suppression of voting rights during the election and the hail mary attempt to avert a Trump presidency through the elect...
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(2016/12/09) How to debate friends and influence people from 2016-12-09T23:00
Edition #1063
Today we look at some of the underlying issues that undercuts our ability to effectively debate and explore ways to use this knowledge to improve our co...
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(2016/12/06) Defend the sacred (Dakota Access Pipeline) from 2016-12-06T23:00
Edition #1062
Today we look at some of the recent violence waged against protectors and independent journalists at Standing Rock North Dakota and the temporary victor...
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(2016/04/29) In praise of higher taxes (Economics) (Repost) from 2016-12-02T23:00
Edition #1010
Today we take a look at the way our current low-tax structure ends up redistributing the burden of funding society to those least able to pay for it while w...
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(2016/11/29) The divide at the heart of progressive politics from 2016-11-29T23:00
Edition #1061
Today we look at the argument going on about the direction and focus the progressive movement and Democratic party should take in the wake of the electi...
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(2016/11/25) We should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings (Godwin’s Law) from 2016-11-25T23:00
Edition #1060
Today we look at the comparison between the rise of Hitler and the rise of Trump, not to say that they are the same but to try to learn from the past in...
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(2016/11/25) We should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings (Godwin’s Law) from 2016-11-25T23:00
Edition #1060
Today we look at the comparison between the rise of Hitler and the rise of Trump, not to say that they are the same but to try to learn from the past in...
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(2016/11/18) Hatred Unleashed (Trump’s America) from 2016-11-18T23:00
Edition #1059
Today we look at the wave of white-supremacist hatred that was unleashed on election day and Trump’s pick of a white nationalist, anti-semite to work in...
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(2016/11/15) Where we go from here (Progressives and Democrats) from 2016-11-16T00:00
Edition #1058
Today we look at how the Democratic party has been going wrong for decades in a way that partially explains their electoral loss in 2016 and then use th...
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(2016/11/11) In the Days After (Election 2016) from 2016-11-12T00:00
Edition #1057
Today we reflect on the 2016 election, examine the variety of feelings it has brought fourth and contemplate the next steps ahead of us
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(2016/11/08) Beyond the election (The Progressive Movement) from 2016-11-08T21:00
Edition #1056
Today we look beyond the election to the progressive movement that needs to keep it’s momentum going regardless of who the next president will be Listen
(2016/11/04) What is at stake (Climate Change and the Supreme Court) from 2016-11-04T23:00
Edition #1055
Today we look at the two biggest issues with the most limited timelines and far-reaching consequences of our era and how they are both at stake in this ...
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(2016/11/01) Making a genuine effort to understand Trump conservatives from 2016-11-01T23:00
Edition #1054
Today we dive deeply into the world of conservatives as described in the new book “Strangers in their own Land” by Arlie Russel Hochschild in an attempt...
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(2016/11/01) Making a genuine effort to understand Trump conservatives from 2016-11-01T23:00
Edition #1054
Today we dive deeply into the world of conservatives as described in the new book “Strangers in their own Land” by Arlie Russel Hochschild in an attempt...
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(2016/10/28) The real way elections get rigged (Voter Suppression) from 2016-10-28T23:00
Edition #1053
Today we look at a range of voter suppression tactics including voter intimidation from history and present-day
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(2016/10/25) The policies we have vs. the policies we need (Reproductive Rights) from 2016-10-25T23:00
Edition #1052
Today we look at reproductive rights issues from the states up to the presidential election and the future of the Supreme Court
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(2016/10/21) Consent is sexy (Rape Culture) from 2016-10-21T23:00
Edition #1051
Today we look at just a few of the manifestations of rape culture in society with plenty of focus on the need for affirmative consent education
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(2016/02/05) When climate science meets faith-based economics (Repost) from 2016-10-18T23:12:25
Edition #988
Today we look at the intersection of the climate crisis with our current economic system including how monopolies, trade deals, market failures and the conce...
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(2016/02/05) When climate science meets faith-based economics (Repost) from 2016-10-18T23:12:25
Edition #988
Today we look at the intersection of the climate crisis with our current economic system including how monopolies, trade deals, market failures and the conce...
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(2016/10/14) Unions or not, we are still all in this together (Labor Rights) from 2016-10-14T23:00
Edition #1050
Today we look at the systems at play that put workers and everyday consumers at a constant disadvantage to their business-running overloads - but it has...
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(2016/10/11) What you need to know about Libertarianism from 2016-10-11T23:00
Edition #1049
Today we look at the political philosophy of libertarianism and explain why large parts of it make almost no sense when applied to the real world Listen
(2016/10/07) Slavery in America is still alive and well (Prison Labor) from 2016-10-07T23:00
Edition #1048
Today we look at the ways in which the 13th amendment to the constitution opened the doors to a mere evolution of slavery rather than it’s abolition as ...
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(2016/10/07) Slavery in America is still alive and well (Prison Labor) from 2016-10-07T23:00
Edition #1048
Today we look at the ways in which the 13th amendment to the constitution opened the doors to a mere evolution of slavery rather than it’s abolition as ...
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(2016/10/04) How the parties have broken our democracy (Election Corruption) from 2016-10-04T23:00
Edition #1047
Today we look at a few of the ways our two major political parties have worked to entrench their own power with the side effect of ruining the foundatio...
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(2016/09/30) Building systems that work for people (Culture) from 2016-09-30T23:00
Edition #1046
Today we look at the designed systems that dictate how and where we work, live and engage with society and think about ways to improve those systems Listen
(2016/09/27) Systemic forces and how to fight them (Racism) from 2016-09-27T23:00
Edition #1045
Today we look at the systemically racist systems of policing currently in place in our country and the protest movement that continues to rise up agains...
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(2016/09/23) Working to maintain the status quo (Media) from 2016-09-23T23:00
Edition #1044
Today we look at some of the ways our corporate media work to ignore widespread disaffection and real issues in favor of fluff, argument and ineffectual...
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(2016/09/20) Building momentum, making progress (Money in Politics) from 2016-09-20T23:00
Edition #1043
Today we look at some of the structures of money in politics and how the tide is beginning to turn
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(2016/09/20) Building momentum, making progress (Money in Politics) from 2016-09-20T23:00
Edition #1043
Today we look at some of the structures of money in politics and how the tide is beginning to turn
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(2016/09/16) Protecting from the black snake (Dakota Access Pipeline) from 2016-09-16T23:00
Edition #1042
Today we look in on the convergence of Native American and First Nations tribes in North Dakota to protect the water from the Dakota Access Pipeline Listen
(2016/02/16) The food market (Food-Industrial Complex) (Repost) from 2016-09-13T23:00
Edition #991
Today we take a look at the influence of the food giants on what goes into our food supply, who’s allowed to inspect and regulate it, what our kids are t...
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(2016/02/26) Who gets a seat at the table (Culture) (Repost) from 2016-09-09T23:00
Edition #994
Today we take a look at the narratives and stories that fill and influence our lives, whose stories get told and why and how that effects the way we see ...
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(2016/09/06) The other pro-choice movement (Death with Dignity) from 2016-09-06T23:00
Edition #1041
Today we take a look at matters of life, death and the right to choose when to move from one to the other
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(2016/09/02) Home sweet home (Housing and Homelessness) from 2016-09-02T23:00
Edition #1040
Today we take a look at a couple of solutions to homelessness as well as some of the forces at play that effect how and where people live across the cou...
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(2016/08/30) What worker coops can do for us (Capitalism) from 2016-08-30T23:00
Edition #1039
Today we look in detail at the overdue concept of worker owned and operated enterprises and what they can do to help improve the lives of people who wor...
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(2016/08/30) What worker coops can do for us (Capitalism) from 2016-08-30T23:00
Edition #1039
Today we look in detail at the overdue concept of worker owned and operated enterprises and what they can do to help improve the lives of people who wor...
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(2016/08/26) Stopping toxic trade deals (Trans Pacific Partnership) from 2016-08-26T23:00
Edition #1038
Today we take a look at a couple of the international trade deals currently in the works, why they’re bad and how to stop them
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(2016/04/12) How we got to here (Modern History of the Conservative Movement) (Repost) from 2016-08-23T23:00
Edition #1006
Today we take a look at the last several decades of the conservative movement and the Republican Party, where they came from and how we got to where we ...
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(2016/08/19) Something revolutionary this way comes (Progressives) from 2016-08-19T23:00
Edition #1037
Today we take a look at the future of progressivism and how the Bernie Sanders campaign has changed politics for a generation
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(2016/08/16) The pursuit of happiness (Culture) from 2016-08-16T23:00
Edition #1036
Today we take a look at happiness and how to increase it personally and politically
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(2016/08/16) The pursuit of happiness (Culture) from 2016-08-16T23:00
Edition #1036
Today we take a look at happiness and how to increase it personally and politically
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(2016/08/12) The case for raising the minimum wage (Labor) from 2016-08-12T23:00
Edition #1035
Today we take a look at some of the ways that low wages hurts everyone and why the arguments for keeping them low just don’t hold water
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(2016/08/09) Fighting for your right (Voting Rights) from 2016-08-09T23:00
Edition #1034
Today we take a look at the recent judicial wins for voting rights as well as how far we still have to go
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(2016/08/05) Why they deny (Climate Denialism) from 2016-08-05T23:00
Edition #1033
Today we take a look at the reasons behind why people cling so fervently to their increasingly desperate denials of climate change
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(2016/08/02) Unconventional Conventions (RNC and DNC) from 2016-08-02T23:00
Edition #1032
Today we take a look at the highlights and lowlights from both the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention
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(2015/12/18) Legal corruption and how to fix it (Money in Politics) (Repost) from 2016-07-29T23:00
Edition #977
Today we look at the fundamental barrier to democracy in the US and the veritable swarm of movements springing up to tear it down
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(2016/07/26) Remember the Iraq War? (Foreign Policy) from 2016-07-26T23:00
Edition #1031
Today we reminisce about the origins of the Iraq war brought back to the fore by the Chilcot Report coming out of the UK that took seven years and thous...
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(2016/07/22) From warriors to guardians (Police Reform) from 2016-07-22T23:00
Edition #1030
Today we take a look at a few of the ways that our police departments around the country could be reformed as well as some of the reasons why it’s crit...
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(2016/07/19) You can't reignite a fire that never stops burning (Black and Blue Lives) from 2016-07-19T23:00
Edition #1029
Today we take a listen to a few of the reactions from people of color to the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and the police officers...
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(2016/03/18) Playing with the Fire of Fascism (Trump and his Supporters) (Repost) from 2016-07-15T23:00
Edition #999
Today we again ring the fascism warning bell as we look at the continuing saga of the Donald Trump presidential campaign. And remember: “The only thing n...
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(2016/07/12) Varied thoughts on staying vs going (Brexit) from 2016-07-12T23:00
Edition #1028
Today we take a look at the results of the referendum in Great Britain to exit the European Union
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(2016/07/08) Whole Woman’s Health and other stories (Reproductive Justice) from 2016-07-08T23:00
Edition #1027
Today we take a look at the historic reproductive rights ruling from the Supreme Court that just came down in the Whole Woman’s Health case as well as j...
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(2016/01/29) The trouble with extreme wealth inequality (Economics) (Repost) from 2016-07-05T23:00
Edition #986
Today we take a look at the case against extreme wealth inequality and not just from an economic justice perspective. Extreme wealth inequality leads to ...
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(2016/07/01) Independence Day, but only for some (Racism) from 2016-07-01T23:00
Edition #1026
Today we take a look at the history of racial oppression in America from slavery to Jim Crow to The New Jim Crow
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(2016/06/28) Gods, guns and gays (Orlando Massacre) from 2016-06-28T23:00
Edition #1025
Today we take a look at the continued responses to the Orlando massacre encompassing arguments over islamophobia, homophobia and gun control legislation...
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(2016/06/24) Privilege and injustice: A case study (Rape Culture) from 2016-06-24T23:00
Edition #1024
Today we take a look primarily at the case of Brock Turner’s triple-felony sexual assault conviction, the pitifully short sentence he received and what ...
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(2016/06/21) What drives hateful violence (Orlando Massacre) from 2016-06-21T23:00
Edition #1023
Today we take a look at the myriad driving factors that can combine to drive a person to commit an act of violence such as the Orlando Massacre as well ...
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(2016/06/17) Death of The Greatest (Muhammad Ali) from 2016-06-17T23:00
Edition #1022
Today we take a look at the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali
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(2016/06/14) A right delayed is a right denied (Reproductive Rights) from 2016-06-14T23:00
Edition #1021
Today we take a look at the assault on the right to reproductive health care from the state houses down to the sidewalks in front of the clinics Listen
(2016/06/10) The damage we’re doing (Anti-Trans Legislation) from 2016-06-10T23:00
Edition #1020
Today we take a look at the ongoing struggle to secure civil rights equality for trans people in states that are determined to stoke bigotry based on ig...
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(2016/06/07) We need a system for everyone (Economics of Racism and Sexism) from 2016-06-07T23:00
Edition #1019
Today we take a look at the ways in which racism and sexism are inextricably linked to matters of economic justice for all, even those who benefit in m...
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(2016/06/03) In the shadow of slavery (Racism) from 2016-06-03T23:00
Edition #1018
Today we take a look at the structures of racism in the US, who put them there, the problems they cause and what we might do to dismantle them
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(2016/05/31) The Lay of the Land (Election) from 2016-05-31T23:00
Edition #1017
Today we take a look at the sorry state of the 2016 election with two of the most hated people in politics leading the way
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(2016/05/27) Trump and those who surround him (Fascism Watch) from 2016-05-27T23:00
Edition #1016
Today we take a look at the Trump campaign’s building trend toward fascism and white supremacy based on his actions and those of the people he keeps aro...
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(2016/05/20) Escaping consumerism (Culture) from 2016-05-20T23:00
Edition #1015
Today we take a look at how to escape the hedonic treadmill of consumption in pursuit of happiness and moving toward a future of shared prosperity<...
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(2016/05/17) The human impact of animal agriculture (Food Choices) from 2016-05-17T23:00
Edition #1014
Today we take a look at the issue of animal agriculture minus the animals: the effects of our meat consumption on human rights, human health and climate...
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(2016/05/10) Nothing free about corporate trade agreements (TPP and TTIP) from 2016-05-10T23:00
Edition #1013
Today we take a look at the dangerous effects of trade agreements like the TPP and TTIP and some ways to fight against them before they’re passed.<...
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(2016/05/06) May Day and Mothers Day (Feminism and Labor) from 2016-05-06T23:00
Edition #1012
Today we take a look at the origins and sustaining legacies of May Day (International Workers Day) and Mothers Day...
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(2016/05/03) Deception vs. Disobedience (Climate Crisis) from 2016-05-03T23:00
Edition #1011
(2016/04/29) In praise of higher taxes (Economics) from 2016-04-29T23:00
Edition #1010
(2016/04/26) Battle for the Ballot (Voting Rights) from 2016-04-26T23:00
Edition #1009
(2016/04/22) Democracy Sprung (Money in Politics) from 2016-04-22T23:00
Edition #1008
(2016/04/19) No place like home (History of Gentrification) from 2016-04-19T23:00
Edition #1007
(2015/09/22) In search of the good life (Culture) (Repost) from 2016-04-15T23:00
Edition #955
(2016/04/12) How we got to here (Modern History of the Conservative Movement) from 2016-04-12T23:00
Edition #1006
(2016/04/08) How not to be terrorized (Brussels Bombing) from 2016-04-08T23:00
Edition #1005
(2016/04/05) Understanding the 2016 election conservative wedge issue (Trans Rights) from 2016-04-05T23:00
Edition #1004
(2016/04/01) The battle to reorganize the economy (Sharing Economy vs. Coops) from 2016-04-01T23:00
Edition #1003
(2016/03/29) Merrick Garland and the fight for the Supreme Court from 2016-03-29T23:00
Edition #1002
(2016/03/25) The scales are tipping (Climate) from 2016-03-25T23:00
Edition #1001
(2016/03/22) A Look Back (Episode #1000) from 2016-03-22T23:00
Edition #1000
(2016/03/18) Playing with the Fire of Fascism (Trump and his Supporters) from 2016-03-18T23:00
Edition #999
(2016/03/15) Rolling back our voting rights (Elections) from 2016-03-15T23:00
Edition #998
(2016/03/11) Privacy, security or both (Encryption vs the FBI) from 2016-03-12T00:00
Edition #997
(2016/03/04) Heart of Dark Money (Money in Politics) from 2016-03-05T00:00
Edition #996
(2016/03/01) Scalia’s death and the seismic shift on the court (Supreme Court) from 2016-03-02T00:00
Edition #995
(2016/02/26) Who gets a seat at the table (Culture) from 2016-02-27T00:00
Edition #994
(2016/02/23) The corporatization of the media from 2016-02-24T00:00
Edition #993
(2016/02/19) The illness at the heart of our for-profit health care system from 2016-02-20T00:00
Edition #992
(2016/02/16) The food market (Food-Industrial Complex) from 2016-02-17T00:00
Edition #991
(2016/02/12) Prisoners for profit (Prison-Industrial Complex) from 2016-02-13T00:00
Edition #990
(2016/02/09) Investments in education should not earn cash profits from 2016-02-10T00:00
Edition #989
(2016/02/05) When climate science meets faith-based economics from 2016-02-06T00:00
Edition #988
(2016/02/02) The double helix of racial and economic inequality from 2016-02-03T00:00
Edition #987
(2016/01/29) The trouble with extreme wealth inequality (Economics) from 2016-01-30T00:00
Edition #985
(2016/01/26) A conservative policy showcase (Flint’s poisoned water) from 2016-01-27T00:00
Edition #985
(2015/05/15) A crisis of culture (Capitalism) (Snow-Day Repost) from 2016-01-23T00:00
Edition #922
(2016/01/19) To save or destroy capitalism (Economics) from 2016-01-20T00:00
Edition #984
(2016/01/15) The counterproductive thirst for snooping (Privacy/Spying) from 2016-01-16T00:00
Edition #983
(2016/01/12) Beware the creeping fascism (Donald Trump and the GOP Base) from 2016-01-13T00:00
Edition #982
(2016/01/08) The struggle for justice continues (#BlackLivesMatter) from 2016-01-09T00:00
Edition #981
(2016/01/05) An agreement made in Paris (Climate) from 2016-01-06T00:00
Edition #980
(2015/09/04) Progressivism: A guide (Repost) from 2016-01-02T00:00
Edition #950
(2015/05/29) Boys will be boys but we can change what that means (Patriarchy) (Repost) from 2015-12-30T00:00
Edition #926
(2015/12/25) The War on Christmas™ 2015 (and other stories) from 2015-12-25T12:00
Edition #979
(2015/12/22) The future of work (Culture) from 2015-12-23T00:00
Edition #978
(2015/12/22) The future of work (Culture) from 2015-12-23T00:00
Edition #978
(2015/12/18) Legal corruption and how to fix it (Money in Politics) from 2015-12-19T00:00
Edition #977
(2015/12/15) Another day in America (Mass Shootings) from 2015-12-16T00:00
Edition #976
(2015/12/11) Terrorism and the war on reproductive rights (Planned Parenthood shooting) from 2015-12-12T00:00
Edition #975
(2015/12/08) The Trans Pacific Partnership revealed (Corporate Takeover) from 2015-12-09T00:00
Edition #974
(2015/12/04) Killing the middle class (Labor Rights) from 2015-12-05T00:00
Edition #973
(2015/12/01) Classic American Xenophobia (Refugee Crisis) from 2015-12-02T00:00
Edition #972
(2014/11/25) Capitalism will not set you free (Economics) (Repost) from 2015-11-27T13:00
Edition #879
(2015/11/24) The fear response (#ParisAttacks) from 2015-11-25T00:00
Edition #971
(2015/11/20) The power of solidarity (Racial Justice) from 2015-11-21T00:00
Edition #970
(2015/11/17) Barriers to employment, to health and to the bathroom (Trans Rights) from 2015-11-18T00:00
Edition #969
(2015/11/13) The continuing quagmire of an apartheid state (Israel/Palestine) from 2015-11-14T00:00
Edition #968
(2015/11/10) Going to Paris with our heads held somewhat high (Climate) from 2015-11-11T00:00
Edition #967
(2015/11/06) Criminalizing the classroom (School-to-Prison Pipeline) from 2015-11-07T00:00
Edition #966
(2015/11/06) Criminalizing the classroom (School-to-Prison Pipeline) from 2015-11-07T00:00
Edition #966
(2015/11/03) Death by stereotype, the dehumanizing of women of color from 2015-11-04T00:00
Edition #965
(2015/10/30) History of the Christian Right (Religion) from 2015-10-30T16:00
Edition #964
(2015/10/27) The corporate takeover under our noses (Trans-Pacific Partnership) from 2015-10-27T23:00
Edition #963
(2015/10/23) Building momentum to and through Paris (Climate) from 2015-10-23T23:00
Edition #962
(2014/10/21) Don't police me, bro! (Feminism) (Repost) from 2015-10-20T23:00
Edition #870
(2015/10/16) Working our way toward anti-democracy (Voter Suppression) from 2015-10-16T16:00
Edition #961
(2015/10/13) Reconsidering Columbus (Indigenous Peoples day) from 2015-10-13T23:00
Edition #960
(2015/10/09) The need to do better (Mass Incarceration) from 2015-10-09T23:00
Edition #959
(2015/10/06) Where the market should not be allowed to tread (Health Care) from 2015-10-06T23:00
Edition #958
(2015/10/02) Citizens demanding equal power (Money in politics) from 2015-10-02T23:00
Edition #957
(2015/09/29) Religion seen through fear (Islamophobia) from 2015-09-29T23:00
Edition #956
(2015/02/27) Rethinking the fundamentals of drugs and addiction (Drug War) (Repost) from 2015-09-25T23:00
Edition #902
(2015/09/22) In search of the good life (Culture) from 2015-09-22T23:00
Edition #955
(2015/09/18) The angels of our better nature are being tested (Syrian Refugee Crisis) from 2015-09-18T23:00
Edition #954
(2015/09/15) Beyond Marriage Equality (LGBTQ Rights) from 2015-09-15T23:00
Edition #953
(2015/09/11) The battle rages whether you pay attention or not (Reproductive Justice) from 2015-09-11T23:00
Edition #952
(2015/09/08) It is neither all good nor all bad (Sex Workers Rights) from 2015-09-08T23:00
Edition #951
(2015/09/04) Progressivism: A guide from 2015-09-04T23:00
Edition #950
(2015/09/01) Throwing away food while people starve (Poverty) from 2015-09-01T23:00
Edition #949
(2014/12/16) One of our Blackest Marks (The Torture Report) (Repost) from 2015-08-28T23:00
Edition #884
(2014/12/05) Processing Ferguson, Eric Garner and Beyond (#BlackLivesMatter) (Repost) from 2015-08-25T23:00
Edition #881
(2015/08/21) The shift in culture we need (Climate) from 2015-08-21T23:00
Edition #948
(2015/08/18) Understanding the schism in the progressive movement (#BlackLivesMatter) from 2015-08-18T23:00
Edition #947
(2015/08/14) What will it take to reverse this trend? (Privacy Rights) from 2015-08-14T23:00
Edition #946
(2015/08/11) Violence and injustice (Trans Rights) from 2015-08-11T23:00
Edition #945
(2015/08/07) On Cosby and consent (Rape Culture) from 2015-08-07T23:00
Edition #944
(2015/08/04) No human being is illegal (Immigration) from 2015-08-04T23:00
Edition #943
(2015/07/31) Productive progressive infighting (#BlackLivesMatter at #NetrootsNation) from 2015-07-31T23:00
Edition #942
(2015/07/28) Taking food out of the mouths of babes (Poverty) from 2015-07-28T23:00
Edition #941
(2015/01/30) Dispelling the selective memory of Dr. Martin Luther King (Repost) from 2015-07-24T23:00
Edition #894
(2015/07/21) What we are facing and how we are fighting (Climate) from 2015-07-21T23:00
Edition #940
(2015/07/17) We are being failed in so many ways (Media) from 2015-07-17T23:00
Edition #939
(2015/07/14) What are women complaining about? (Feminism) from 2015-07-14T23:00
Edition #938
(2015/07/10) Making progress on our biggest problem (Money in Politics) from 2015-07-10T23:00
Edition #937
(2015/07/07) Drugged and broke (Health Care) from 2015-07-07T23:00
Edition #936
(2015/07/03) It is so ordered (Marriage Equality) from 2015-07-03T23:00
Edition #935
(2015/06/30) The long shadow of southern white supremacy (Racism) from 2015-06-30T23:00
Edition #934
(2015/06/26) Heritage (Rachel Dolezal and the Charleston Shooting) from 2015-06-26T23:00
Edition #933
(2015/06/23) Moving the goalposts on undue burden (Reproductive Justice) from 2015-06-23T23:00
Edition #932
(2015/03/06) Theory vs practice (Libertarianism) (Repost) from 2015-06-19T23:00
Edition #903
(2015/06/16) From rewriting wars to waging peace (Foreign Policy) from 2015-06-16T23:00
Edition #931
(2015/06/12) Our prisons: cruel and counterproductive (Injustice System) from 2015-06-12T23:00
Edition #930
(2015/06/09) Looking to avert further tragedy (War on Drugs™) from 2015-06-09T23:00
Edition #929
(2015/06/05) The criminal enterprise that runs our politics (Big Banks) from 2015-06-05T23:00
Edition #928
(2015/06/02) Confronting the evil of our era (Climate) from 2015-06-02T23:00
Edition #927
(2015/05/29) Boys will be boys but we can change what that means (Patriarchy) from 2015-05-29T23:00
Edition #926
(2015/05/26) A bad idea for all the reasons (Death Penalty) from 2015-05-26T23:00
Edition #925
(2015/05/22) The revolt against high stakes testing (Education) from 2015-05-22T23:00
Edition #924
(2015/05/19) Resisting a secret corporate takeover (Trans-Pacific Partnership) from 2015-05-19T23:00
Edition #923
(2015/05/15) A crisis of culture (Capitalism) from 2015-05-15T23:00
Edition #922
(2015/05/12) We all have a trans friend now (Bruce Jenner) from 2015-05-12T23:00
Edition #921
(2015/05/08) Continued injustice, continued response (#BaltimoreUprising) from 2015-05-08T23:00
Edition #920
(2015/05/05) We thought we were free (Police State) from 2015-05-05T23:00
Edition #919
(2015/05/01) War is a racket (Foreign Policy) from 2015-05-01T23:00
Edition #918
(2015/04/28) The water wars start at home (Climate) from 2015-04-28T23:00
Edition #917
(2015/04/24) The history and current state of abortion (Reproductive Justice) from 2015-04-24T23:00
Edition #916
(2015/04/21) A fight for survival (#BlackLivesMatter) from 2015-04-21T23:00
Edition #915
(2015/04/17) Looking for something better (Capitalism) from 2015-04-17T23:00
Edition #914
(2015/04/14) Refusing to tolerate intolerance (LGBTQ Rights) from 2015-04-14T23:00
Edition #913
(2015/04/10) Poking the watchful eye (NSA Spying) from 2015-04-10T23:00
Edition #912
(2015/04/07) Emasculation Nation (Rape and Intimate Partner Violence) from 2015-04-07T23:00
Edition #911
(2012/03/17) The US Empire and the Ring of Power (Foreign Policy) (Repost) from 2015-04-03T23:00
Edition #586
The US Empire and the Ring of Power
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(2015/03/31) A cascade of embarrassments (Health Care) from 2015-03-31T23:00
Edition #910
(2015/03/27) Debunking the doubters (Climate) from 2015-03-27T23:00
Edition #909
(2015/03/24) Unfair housing, unfair society (Racism) from 2015-03-24T23:00
Edition #908
(2015/03/20) Propaganda and warmongering (Netanyahu and the GOP letter to Iran) from 2015-03-20T23:00
Edition #907
(2015/03/17) Crushing our potential with student debt (Education) from 2015-03-17T23:00
Edition #906
(2015/03/13) Personal, societal and environmental health (Food System) from 2015-03-13T23:00
Edition #905
(2015/03/10) Opt for compassion and inclusion (Transgender Rights) from 2015-03-10T23:00
Edition #904
(2015/03/06) Theory vs practice (Libertarianism) from 2015-03-07T00:00
Edition #903
(2015/03/03) The P Word (Racism) - Rerun from 2015-03-04T00:00
Edition #850
(2015/02/27) Rethinking the fundamentals of drugs and addiction (Drug War) from 2015-02-28T00:00
Edition #902
(2015/02/24) The wealth divide and the crumbling bridge across it (Economics) from 2015-02-25T00:00
Edition #901
(2015/02/20) Stuff we shouldn’t have to explain anymore (Feminism) from 2015-02-21T00:00
Edition #900
(2015/02/17) Work still to be done (LGBTQ Rights) from 2015-02-18T00:00
Edition #899
(2015/02/13) Ignorance and fear sending us backwards (Vaccinations) from 2015-02-14T00:00
Edition #898
(2015/02/10) Economics disguised as politics (Cuba and Greece) from 2015-02-11T00:00
Edition #897
(2015/02/06) Resisting global corporate takeover (Trans-Pacific Partnership) from 2015-02-07T00:00
Edition #896
(2015/02/03) Living like the world is ending (Climate) from 2015-02-04T00:00
Edition #895
(2015/01/30) Dispelling the selective memory of Dr. Martin Luther King from 2015-01-31T00:00
Edition #894
(2015/01/27) Bringing harm, one patriarchal policy at a time (Abortion Rights) from 2015-01-28T00:00
Edition #893
(2015/01/23) Fearing and hating what we don’t understand (Religion) from 2015-01-24T00:00
Edition #892
(2015/01/20) Freedom, terrorism and where we stand (Charlie Hebdo) from 2015-01-21T00:00
(2006/05/08) He May Be a Failure, but He's Our Failure (Colbert's Correspondents Dinner Speech) from 2015-01-17T00:00
A special rerun episode from 2006 when Stephen Colbert was invited to give the keynote at the White House Coorespondents Dinner. Getting sick this week gives me the perfect excuse to replay this...
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(2015/01/13) Why privacy matters (NSA Spying) from 2015-01-14T00:00
(2015/01/09) The system is built to fail (Injustice System) from 2015-01-10T00:00
(2015/01/06) The continuing march toward reform (Money in Politics) from 2015-01-07T00:00
Edition #888
Today we continue to look at the effect of money in politics and follow the campaigns you can support that are actively working to reform the system
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(2015/01/01) Making Provisions (Poverty) from 2015-01-03T00:00
Edition #887
Today we take a look at the state of poverty in America and some ideas of how to address it
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(2014/03/23) The affliction of wealth on people and society (Economics) (Repost) from 2014-12-31T00:00
Edition #811
Today we look at some of the reasons why rich people have a tendency to be some of the worst people on the planet and how their actions make things worse for everyone, includ...
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(2014/05/19) Bad in principle and in practice (Death Penalty) (Repost) from 2014-12-27T00:00
Edition #828
Today we look at what benefits there are in having a death penalty (none) and which elements of it are fundamentally unjust (all)
(2014/12/23) Our annual collective waste of time (War on Christmas) from 2014-12-24T00:00
Edition #886
Today, after weeks of discussing the wrongful deaths of unarmed citizens at the hands of brutal policing policies, the illegal and immoral systematic torture of prisoners car...
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(2014/12/19) A guide to doing it all wrong (The UVA Story - Rape Culture) from 2014-12-20T00:00
Edition #885
Today we take a look at the fallout from a badly reported case of rape at a UVA frat house. Rolling Stone seemed to be trying to help but with a completely upside-down approa...
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(2014/12/16) One of our Blackest Marks (The Torture Report) from 2014-12-17T00:00
Edition #884
Today we take a look at the recently released Senate torture report and attempt to give guidance on how it should and should NOT be received
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(2014/12/12) Put your money where our future is (Climate) from 2014-12-13T00:00
Edition #883
Today we take a look at the economics of energy and the implications for the climate. Turns out the pressure to create a clean energy future is making that future a good bet ...
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(2014/12/09) Breakdowns in the systems (Injustice System) from 2014-12-10T00:00
Edition #882
Today we take a look at the systemic failures, both institutional and psychological, that continue to make injustice the norm throughout our justice system
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#881 Processing Ferguson, Eric Garner and Beyond (#BlackLivesMatter) from 2014-12-06T00:00
Edition #881
Today listen and learn from those most deeply effected by the pattern of deaths of black men and women as they talk through their grief and anger
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(2014/12/02) Proof of the multiverse theory (Media) from 2014-12-03T00:00
Edition #880
Today we take a look at the fact that the divisions in our media consumption are creating perspectives of the world which are utterly unrecognizable to one another
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(2014/02/05) Don't eat shit and die (Food) (Repost) from 2014-11-28T19:00
#796
Turns out there's a whole lot of stuff wrong with our food supply,...
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(2014/11/25) Capitalism will not set you free (Economics) from 2014-11-26T00:00
Edition #879
Today we take a look at some of the underlying problems with capitalism and their repercussions
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(2014/11/21) The fight has only just begun (Money in politics) from 2014-11-22T00:00
Edition #878
Today we take a look at how the fight against money in politics is going in the wake of the 2014 election and where it’s going looking forward
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(2014/11/18) Hair of the dog (Election) from 2014-11-19T00:00
Edition #877
To day we take a look at the election to see what went right, what went wrong and why. Plus, how to fix the problems for the future.
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(2014/11/14) Hey girl, you want me to respect your personal space? (Street Harassment) from 2014-11-15T00:00
Edition #876
Today we take a look at why street harassment, from the most vile to the most seemingly innocuous, is holding back the fight for equality and making half the population feel ...
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(2014/11/11) Rising tide of climate change deniers and sea levels (Climate) from 2014-11-12T00:00
Edition #875
Today we take a look at some of the potential environmental fallout of the recent US elections
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(2014/11/07) Debating the structures of extremism (Religion) from 2014-11-08T00:00
Edition #874
Today we examine the fallout of the discussion between Bill Maher, Sam Harris and Ben Affleck on the subject of Islamic extremism. Turns out it’s complicated.
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(2014/11/04) The other new Jim Crow (Voting rights) from 2014-11-05T00:00
Edition #873
Today we take a look at the ways the Republican Party has been working to suppress voter turnout to benefit their electoral chances while claiming to be stopping vot...
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(2014/06/24) Disinfecting the rot on American democracy (Money in Politics) (Repodcast) from 2014-10-31T23:00
#839
Today we look at the biggest fundamental problem with American pol...
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(2014/10/28) Hard to believe that this got political (Ebola) from 2014-10-28T23:00
Edition #872
Today we take a look at the conscience-shocking ways that conservatives are politicizing the news of very few cases of Ebola in the US
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(2014/10/24) Your child is a widget (Education) from 2014-10-24T23:00
Edition #871
Today we take a look at some of the larger forces at play that change the way we think about and structure our education system
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(2014/10/21) Don't police me, bro! (Feminism) from 2014-10-22T00:11:43
Edition #870
Today we take a look at a variety of ways that (mostly) men attempt to police the actions and choices of (mostly) women, causing nothing but damage as a result
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(2014/10/17) Democrats will not save you until the system is fixed (Elections) from 2014-10-17T23:00
Edition #869
Democrats will not save you until the system is fixed
Today we take a look at why no faith should be put in the Democratic Party to fight for progressive goal...
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(2014/10/14) Questioning capitalism (Economics) from 2014-10-14T23:00
Edition #868
Questioning capitalism
Today we take a look at the big picture of the paradigm we live in and the priorities we take for granted, then question them all
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(2014/10/10) Mind the coverage gap (Health Care) from 2014-10-10T23:05:12
Edition #867
Mind the coverage gap
Today we take a look at the p...
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(2014/10/07) The People’s Climate March (Climate) from 2014-10-07T23:00
Edition #866
The People’s Climate March
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(2014/10/03) Structural failures that lead us to war (Media) from 2014-10-03T23:00
Edition #865
Today we look on in horror as the media once again leads us to war and we examine the underlying reasons why the media will continue to fail us
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(2014/09/30) The definition of insanity (Foreign Policy) from 2014-09-30T23:00
Edition #864
The definition of insanity
Today we take a look at the problem we’ve made worse in the Middle East and why we can’t fix it
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(2014/09/26) Fighting the tide of lost freedoms (Privacy Rights) from 2014-09-26T23:00
Edition #863
Fighting the tide of lost freedoms
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(2014/09/23) Male dominance as a social disease (Feminism) from 2014-09-23T23:00
Edition #862
Today we take a look at violence against women, both physical and political
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(2014/09/16) More reasons than you should need to oppose it (Death Penalty) from 2014-09-16T23:00
Edition #861
There are more reasons than you should need to oppose it
Today we see that literally no matter what angle you look from, the death penalty is impossible to be...
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(2014/09/12) Understanding how we got here (Racism) from 2014-09-12T23:00
Edition #860
Understanding how we got here
Today we take a look at some of the historical contexts of racism and how those structures are still functioning today
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(2014/09/09) Momentum on our biggest problem (Money in politics) from 2014-09-09T23:00
Edition #859
Momentum on our biggest problem
Today we bask in the rare glow of hope, cautious optimism and barely-perceptible progress on the problem of money in politics. Hooray!<...
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(2014/09/06) The fight for fundamental equality (Abortion Rights) from 2014-09-06T23:00
Edition #858
The fight for fundamental equality
Today we take a look at some of the fights being waged, setbacks and successes of the abortion rights movement
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(2014/09/03) People standing as one (Global Warming) from 2014-09-03T23:00
Edition #857
People standing as one
Today we take a look at some of the reasons we need action on climate change as well as some of the ways people are getting together to...
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(2014/08/30) Racism as a paradigm (Media) from 2014-08-30T23:00
Edition #856
Racism as a paradigm
Today we take a look at how the media reinforces all of the existing, societal assumptions about race and we use a new analogy to ... Listen
(2013/06/28) Positive ideas and protests for change (Economics) (Repost) from 2014-08-27T23:00
Edition #730
Positive ideas and protests for change
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(2014/08/24) Just the most recent spotlight on militarized racism (#Ferguson) from 2014-08-24T23:00
Edition #855
Just the most recent spotlight on militarized racism
Today we take a look at the short and long-term effects of the combined forces of decades of systemic rac...
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(2014/08/21) Would-be oppressors with a victim mentality (LGBTQ Rights) from 2014-08-21T23:00
Edition #854
Would-be oppressors with a victim mentality
Today we take a look at the actual right to be treated equally and the fictional right some claim they have to dis...
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(2014/08/18) What we have done to some folks (Torture) from 2014-08-18T23:00
Edition #853
What we have done to some folks
Today we're going to hear about the shifting of the winds regarding how we talk about the torture we committed over the past d...
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(2014/08/16) Trickle up, up and overseas economics (Corporations) from 2014-08-15T23:00
Edition #852
Trickle up, up and overseas economics
Today we take a look at the ways in which the game is rigged to keep executive pay high, worker pay low and corporate we...
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(2014/08/12) To selectively protect and serve (Injustice System) from 2014-08-12T23:00
Edition #851
To selectively protect and serve
Today we look at a variety of ways in which the justice system utterly fails to deliver anything resembling justice
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(2014/08/09) The P Word (Racism) from 2014-08-09T23:00
Edition #850
The P Word
Today we hammer home the details about white privilege once and for all so that there will never be any further confusion about ever
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(2014/08/06) The planners and the deniers (Global Warming) from 2014-08-06T23:00
Edition #849
The planners and the deniers
Today we look at some of the people and the plans they have to help save the climate as well as some of the deniers and how to de...
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(2014/08/03) Wars and words (Media) from 2014-08-03T23:00
Edition #848
Wars and words
Today we take a look at ways the media loves to spin the facts of war, start new wars and generally support the people with the power to start ...
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(2014/07/31) Refugees at the border (Immigration) from 2014-07-31T23:00
Edition #847
Refugees at the border
Today we take a look at how our arguments over immigration policy is causing emotional flare ups around what should be an uncomplicated...
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(2014/07/28) The Israeli incursion into Gaza (Special Event) from 2014-07-28T23:00
Edition #846
The Israeli incursion into Gaza
Today we take an overview of the current conflict between Israel and Gaza. There are war crimes on both sides but a large asym...
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(2014/07/25) Another reason why we need single payer (Hobby Lobby) from 2014-07-25T23:00
Edition #845
Another reason why we need single payer
Today we take a look at the Hobby Lobby ruling from the Supreme Court. Just as with money in politics, I'm pretty sure...
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(2014/07/22) Fools and money (Conservatives) from 2014-07-22T23:00
Edition #844
Fools and money
Today we take a look at a few ways how and why conservatives are being systematically fooled to the benefit of the elite
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(2013/07/19) How we treat those we are responsible for (Prison Nation) (Repodcast) from 2014-07-18T23:00
Edition #737
How we treat those we are responsible for
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Aryan Brotherhood's 'Jihadist' Murde...
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(2014/07/14) All but the rich agree we need change (Wealth Divide) from 2014-07-14T23:00
Edition #843
All but the rich agree we need change
Today we take a look at the facts and the folly of the vast and growing wealth gap in the US. The good news is that ever...
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(2013/07/25) Cause and effect (Foreign Policy) (Repodcast) from 2014-07-10T23:00
Edition #739
Cause and effect
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The New Iraq and Rumsfeld's Rules - le Show - Air Date 5-19-13
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(2014/07/06) The education industry (Education) from 2014-07-06T23:00
Edition #842
The education industry
Today we take a look at couple of ways smart job-creators have come up with to make people pay for portions of our education system tha...
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(2014/07/02) Hope dies last (Climate) from 2014-07-02T23:00
Edition #841
Hope dies last
Today we hear about climate progress from Obama and climate denial from bought-off Republicans, we clarify how to talk about it and what we're ...
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(2014/06/28) Trials and tribulations (Trans Rights) from 2014-06-28T23:00
Edition #840
Trials and tribulations
Today we hear some personal and some political stories that give insight into the trans experience in America
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(2014/06/24) Disinfecting the rot on American democracy (Money in Politics) from 2014-06-24T23:00
Edition #839
Disinfecting the rot on American democracy
Today we look at the biggest fundamental problem with American politics and a couple of the biggest plans to fix it...
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(2014/06/21) Double dose of duplicity (Foreign Policy) from 2014-06-21T23:00
Edition #838
Double dose of duplicity
Today we look at the absurdly politicized reactions to the prisoner swap to Listen
(2014/06/18) One year after Snowden (NSA Spying) from 2014-06-18T23:00
Edition #837
One year after Snowden
Today we look at where we are, in the wake of the Snowden revelations from one year ago, and where we may be heading with our relations...
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(2014/06/15) The case for reparations (Racism) from 2014-06-15T23:00
Edition #836
The case for reparations
Today we explain once again what white privilege is and isn't and then take a look at the case for reparations for slavery
(2014/06/12) Speak up on the future of the Internet (Net Neutrality) from 2014-06-12T19:56:25
Edition #835
Speak up on the future of the Internet
Today we look at how the Internet could look if we let the cable baron's lobbyists, including the one appointed to the ...
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(2014/06/09) Somewhere between anarchy and tyranny (Health Care) from 2014-06-09T23:00
Edition #834
Somewhere between anarchy and tyranny
Today we take a l...
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(2014/06/06) Objectified, harassed, abused, killed (Misogyny) from 2014-06-06T23:00
Edition #833
Objectified, harassed, abused, killed
Today we look at ...
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(2014/06/03) It costs money to either save or destroy the world (Climate) from 2014-06-03T23:00
Edition #832
It costs money to either save or destroy the world
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(2014/05/31) The scales are systemically tipped (Media) from 2014-05-31T23:00
Edition #831
The scales are systemically tipped
Today we look at just a few of the things that are fundamentally broken about the way our corporate media system works
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(2014/05/28) Misguided and hypocritical (War on Drugs) from 2014-05-28T23:00
Edition #830
Misguided and hypocritical
Today we look at some of the benefits of marijuana legalization and the hypocritical asininity of those who oppose it
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(2014/05/25) The evil that we deplore (Foreign Policy) from 2014-05-25T23:00
Edition #829
The evil that we deplore
Today we look ahead to the forthcoming report on America's torture program and back at the process by which we keep getting ourselves...
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(2014/01/30) Scientific literacy and how to get there (Education) (Repost) from 2014-05-22T23:00
Edition #794
Scientific literacy and how to get there
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: TN Student Speaks Out About Common Core, T...
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(2014/05/19) Bad in principle and in practice (Death Penalty) from 2014-05-19T23:00
Edition #828
Bad in principle and in practice
Today we look at what benefits there are in having a death penalty (none) and which elements of it are fundamentally unjust (...
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(2014/05/16) Perspective Taking (Racism) from 2014-05-16T23:00
Edition #827
Perspective Taking
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: A Brief History of White Privilege, Racism and Oppression in Ame...
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(2014/05/13) Work is work is work (Wage and Respect Gap) from 2014-05-13T23:00
Edition #826
Work is work is work
Today we take a delightfully nuanced look at the causes of the gender pay gap and then likely make a lot of people uncomfortable with the...
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(2014/05/10) This might be the solution (Money in politics) from 2014-05-10T23:00
Edition #825
This might be the solution
Today we look at the classic issue of how money in politics has totally fucked us all and at one way to possibly turn the tables. D...
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(2014/05/07) Investing in a green future (Climate) from 2014-05-07T23:00
Edition #824
Investing in a green future
Today we lament the fact that conservatives used to be less-wildly wrong on climate change than they are now and look at some ways...
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(2014/05/04) It makes moral and economic sense (Minimum Wage) from 2014-05-04T23:00
Edition #823
It makes moral and economic sense
Today we look at the reasons why it's both moral and economically sound to raise the minimum wage to a reasonable level and ...
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(2014/05/01) It might have something to do with race (Immigration) from 2014-05-01T23:00
Edition #822
It might have something to do with race
Today we look at the immigration debate and ponder how conservatives may feel about the issue if those immigrants were...
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(2014/04/28) The arc of history and the stumbles along the way (LGBTQ Rights) from 2014-04-28T23:00
Edition #821
The arc of history and the stumbles along the way
Today we examine the old and new ways of looking at the LGBTQ community. We've come a long ways but we're st...
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(2014/04/25) More misplaced incentive structures (Education) from 2014-04-25T23:21:03
Edition #820
More misplaced incentive structures
Today we look at what happens when you add a profit motive to the education system. You may be surprised to learn that som...
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(2014/04/22) Incentives have consequences (Injustice system) from 2014-04-22T23:00
Edition #819
Incentives have consequences
Today we look at the rotten underbelly of our 'corrections' system, who it victimizes and who it profits.
Ch. 1: ...
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(2014/04/20) Burn it to the ground (NSA Spying) from 2014-04-19T23:00
Edition #818
Burn it to the ground
Today we attempt to watch the watchers and see if there's anything to be done about them.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond F...
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(2014/04/10) The power of words (Trans Rights) from 2014-04-10T23:00
Edition #817
The power of words
Today we look at the words we use to talk about trans issues and realize the profound impact they have on how we see the issue. Plus there'...
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(2014/04/07) Dog whistle politics (Racism) from 2014-04-07T23:00
Edition #816
Dog whistle politics
Today we look at how racism is strategically used to gain power for Republicans and funnel money to corporations. And here you thought it...
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(2014/04/04) Past and future destruction (Climate) from 2014-04-04T23:00
Edition #815
Past and future destruction
Today we look at the past and future destruction caused by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions as well as our lackluster att...
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(2014/04/01) No corporate news is good news (Media) from 2014-04-01T23:00
Edition #814
No corporate news is good news
Today we take a look at the various ways the corporate media regularly embarrasses itself while in search of ratings from ever-...
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(2014/03/29) Intolerant of discrimination and proud of it (Reproductive Rights) from 2014-03-29T23:00
Edition #813
Intolerant of discrimination and proud of it
Today we look at the inane battle being waged over some christian business owners proclaimed right to discriminat...
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(2014/03/26) Sadly grasping at cakes (LGBTQ Rights) from 2014-03-26T23:00
Edition #812
Pathetically grasping at cakes
Today we look at the last gasps of the anti-LGBTQ movement in the US but also take a glimpse at Uganda where we can see the typ...
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(2014/03/23) The affliction of wealth on people and society (Economics) from 2014-03-23T23:00
Edition #811
The affliction of wealth on people and society
Today we look at some of the reasons why rich people have a tendency to be some of the worst people on the plan...
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(2014/03/20) That thing in Ukraine that's happening (Foreign Policy) from 2014-03-20T18:48:58
Edition #810
That thing in Ukraine that's happening
Today we take a look at Ukraine and Russia, ponder whether there's anything for us to do about the situation there and ...
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(2014/03/16) A look in the mirror and the rear view mirror (Progressives) from 2014-03-16T23:00
Edition #809
A look in the mirror and the rear view mirror
Today we take look at some progressives from the past a present and what they're up to. Starts to make you wonde...
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(2014/03/13) Heart of Darkness (Conservatives) from 2014-03-13T23:00
Edition #808
Heart of Darkness
Today we take a look at what some conservatives have been up to lately, including a glimpse at their yearly display of insanity at the ultra...
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(2014/03/10) Like men, only cheaper (Feminism) from 2014-03-10T23:00
Edition #807
Like men, only cheaper
Today we watch as conservatives clumsily try to hold back the rising tide of gender equality. It's quite sad, really.
C...
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(2014/03/07) Moment of truth (Climate/Keystone XL) from 2014-03-08T00:00
Edition #806
Moment of truth
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Keystone XL - Time to end the addiction - @allinwithchris Hayes - A...
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(2014/03/04) Unequal justice under the law (The (in)justice system) from 2014-03-05T00:00
Edition #805
Unequal justice under the law
Today we look at the stick of justice in America and who's getting the short end of it.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A ...
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(2014/03/01) Knowing our history and seeing it echo today (Racism) from 2014-03-02T00:00
Edition #804
Knowing our history and seeing it echo today
Today we look at how history shapes the present, how we can shape the future and how change is inevitable.
(2014/02/26) Resistance is the only hope (Capitalism) from 2014-02-27T00:00
Edition #803
Resistance is the only hope
You remember that movie "The Neverending Story"? I grew up with that movie but didn't realize until much later how "The Nothing", ...
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(2014/02/23) The seamy underbelly (Conservatives) from 2014-02-24T00:00
Edition #802
The seamy underbelly
Today we look behind the curtain of conservatives, libertarians and the Republican party. What we find isn't pretty.
Ch. ...
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(2014/02/20) If you're talking about genitals then you've missed the point (Trans* Rights) from 2014-02-21T00:00
Edition #801
If you're talking about genitals then you've missed the point
Today I take my second crack at discussing trans* rights. Last time I trie...
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(2014/02/17) A parody of itself (Media) from 2014-02-18T00:00
Edition #800
A parody of itself
I'm eternally grateful for how ridiculously terrible the mainstream media is. If not for their utter and nearly constant failures I'm quite...
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(2014/02/14) Rise of the gatekeepers (Net Neutrality) from 2014-02-14T23:01:57
Edition #799
Rise of the gatekeepers
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Why This Ruling On Net Neutrality Is A Disaster - @theyoung...
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(2014/02/11) Learning to play nice with human nature (War on Drugs) from 2014-02-12T00:00
Edition #798
Learning to play nice with human nature
Today we look at the evolution of bullshit reasons there have been to prohibit consumption of marijuana: from the bull...
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(2014/02/08) Trouble at the old pharm (Health Care) from 2014-02-09T00:00
Edition #797
Trouble at the old pharm
Today we take a look at the seedy underbelly of the industry that creates all of those wonderful, life-saving drugs that sit at the cr...
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(2014/02/07) The fourth dimension (Sample of Member's Content) from 2014-02-07T20:10:51
Bonus Edition #25
The fourth dimension
Today I discuss the elements of time and perspective.
References include:
Mountains in Motion: The Canadian Roc...
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(2014/02/05) Don't eat shit and die (Food) from 2014-02-06T00:00
Edition #796
Don't eat shit and die
Turns out there's a whole lot of stuff wrong with our food supply, including cows eating shit. Like they don't already have it bad enoug...
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(2014/02/02) It's hot, it's cold, it's polluted (Climate/Energy) from 2014-02-03T00:00
Edition #795
It's hot, it's cold, it's polluted
Who knew that incredibly complex weather patterns could be explained but something other than thoughtless gut reaction? We l...
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(2014/01/30) Scientific literacy and how to get there (Education) from 2014-01-31T00:00
Edition #794
Scientific literacy and how to get there
Today we hear what works and what doesn't when it comes to teaching kids in school. We also hear about the importance...
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(2014/01/27) Our social safety sieve (Economics) from 2014-01-28T00:00
Edition #793
Our social safety sieve
Today we look at low-income individuals and the social programs that serve them to try to figure out once and for all if poor people ar...
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(2014/01/24) Don't get down with TPP (Corporate Takeover) from 2014-01-25T00:00
Edition #792
Don't get down with TPP
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Corporations Determined To Rule The World - Disorderly Condu...
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(2014/01/21) We just earned a D grade (Reproductive Rights) from 2014-01-22T00:00
Edition #791
We just earned a D grade
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Anti-abortion Ohio legislator never thought about women - R...
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(2014/01/17) A smorgasbord of folly (Foreign Policy) from 2014-01-18T00:00
Edition #790
A smorgasbord of folly
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: One minute Middle East update - @MarkFiore - Air Date: 01-14-...
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Repodcast: (2011/02/15) A collection of embarrassments (Media) from 2014-01-15T00:00
Edition #456
A collection of embarrassments
Act 1: Kirk Cameron less crazy than CNN - Majority Report
Song 1: My brother the ape - They might be giants
Act 2:...
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(2014/01/11) Republicans are people too (Conservatives) from 2014-01-12T00:00
Edition #789
Republicans are people too
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Are Obama Haters Worse Than Bush Haters? - @Thom_Hartmann...
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(2014/01/08) Harassment in place of police work (Racism) from 2014-01-09T00:00
Edition #788
Harassment in place of police work
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Stop-and-Frisk: The High School Senior - Change t...
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(2014/01/05) Good news, bad news for paranoia sufferers (NSA Spying) from 2014-01-06T00:00
Edition #787
Good news, bad news for paranoia sufferers
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Demand a Digital Bill of Rights - The Pro...
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(2014/01/02) Following the money, the gas and a table (Climate) from 2014-01-03T00:00
Edition #786
Following the money, the gas and a table
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Climate Change is a Thing and the Science B...
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(2013/12/30) Time's Person of the Year (The Pope) from 2013-12-31T00:00
Edition #785
Time's Person of the Year
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: GOP: The Pope has Some Lessons for you - Thom Hartmann - A...
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Repodcast: (2013/02/19) Drones are not the problem, they just highlight the problem (Foreign Policy) from 2013-12-28T00:00
Edition #690
Drones are not the problem, they just highlight the problem
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Leaked Memo Reveals Shoc...
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Repodcast: (2013/02/10) Corporations are not immoral, they're amoral (Economics) from 2013-12-25T00:00
Edition #686
Part 1: Corporations are not immoral, they're amoral
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Why Do You Do What You Do? - Le...
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(2013/12/21) Christmas in black and white (War on Christmas™) from 2013-12-22T00:00
Edition #784
Christmas in black and white
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Genesis of Bill O'Reilly's War On Christmas - Jimmy Dor...
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(2013/12/18) Humans are just terrible (Rape Culture) from 2013-12-19T00:00
Edition #783
Humans are just terrible
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Anonymous Targets Missouri Town Over Dropped Rape Charges |...
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(2013/12/15) Not just bad, face-palm bad (Media) from 2013-12-16T00:00
Edition #782
Not just bad, face-palm bad
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Do MSNBC Hosts Get Pressured To Be Partisan? - The Young...
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(2013/12/12) Nelson Mandela: Free at last from 2013-12-13T00:00
Edition #781
Nelson Mandela: Free at last
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Nelson Mandela 1918-2013 - All in with Chris Hayes - Ai...
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(2013/12/09) Congress just got slightly less unmitigatedly horrific (Filibuster) from 2013-12-10T00:00
Edition #780
Congress just got slightly less unmitigatedly horrific
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: It's Time to go 'Nuclear' on ...
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(2013/12/06) Being of two minds (Health Care) from 2013-12-07T00:00
Edition #779
Being of two minds
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
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(2013/12/03) Emphasis on the T (LGBTQ Rights) from 2013-12-04T00:00
Edition #778
Emphasis on the T
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Is America Ready to Discuss Transgender Issues? - Majority Report ...
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(2013/01/08) Time to wind it down (Foreign Policy) (Repodcast) from 2013-11-29T14:00
Edition #676
Time to wind it down
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Is It Time to End the Global War on Terror? - Rachel Maddow - A...
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(2013/11/25) Laboring in badly-designed machines (Labor Movement) from 2013-11-26T00:00
Edition #777
Laboring in badly-designed machines
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Is the American Dream a Reality? - David Pakman ...
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(2013/11/21) Everybody Snoops (NSA Spying) from 2013-11-22T00:00
Edition #776
Everybody Snoops
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: NSA Back Up, Always On, Always Watching - The Good Fight - Air Date...
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(2013/11/18) Another terrible pipeline (School-to-prison) from 2013-11-19T00:00
Edition #775
Another terrible pipeline
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: What to do with the Slaves When They are no Longer Needed?...
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(2013/11/15) Proud traditions and cultural norms (Racism) from 2013-11-16T00:00
Edition #774
Proud traditions and cultural norms
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Police Chief's "Apology Heard 'Round The World" ...
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(2013/11/12) Overthrowing Plutonomy (Economics) from 2013-11-13T00:00
Edition #773
Overthrowing Plutonomy
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Plutonomy - Common Sense with Dan Carlin - Air Date: 10-06-13...
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(2013/11/08) The old system was worse, a new system would be better (Health Care) from 2013-11-09T00:00
Edition #772
The old system was worse, a new system would be better
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Bad website, better coverage,...
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(2013/11/05) Feminism will save the world (Climate) from 2013-11-06T00:00
Edition #771
Feminism will save the world
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Campaign for Local Power - New Era Colorado - Air Date:...
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(2013/11/02) Education is not a commodity (Education) from 2013-11-02T23:00
Edition #770
Education is not a commodity
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Kindergartners Targeted By School "Reformers" - Majorit...
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(2013/10/30) Postmortem is prologue (Congressional obstruction) from 2013-10-30T23:00
Edition #769
Postmortem is prologue
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Shutdown Over, GOP Crushed, Funding Secured (Until January) -...
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(2013/10/27) Vote the bums out if they'll let you (Voter suppression) from 2013-10-27T23:00
Edition #768
Vote the bums out if they'll let you
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Voter ID Laws Abound After Court's Decision - C...
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(2013/10/24) Male insecurity is the enemy of all (Feminism) from 2013-10-24T23:00
Edition #767
Male insecurity is the enemy of all
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Republicans are Rabidly Fixated on One Thing - R...
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(2013/10/21) The issue through which all other issues flow (Political Corruption) from 2013-10-21T23:00
Edition #766
The issue through which all other issues flow
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Does Democracy Still Work in America? ...
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(2013/10/18) Not corrupted absolutely but getting there (Police State) from 2013-10-18T23:00
Edition #765
Not corrupted absolutely but getting there
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Court OK's Barring High IQs for Cops - Da...
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(2013/10/15) Because family values (LGBTQ Rights) from 2013-10-15T23:00
Edition #764
Because family values
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Corey Booker: So What If I'm Gay? - Young Turks - Air Date: 08...
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(2013/10/12) The ACA markets are open, time to panic (Health Care) from 2013-10-12T23:00
Edition #763
The ACA markets are open, time to panic
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Signing Up For The ACA, Off To A Good Start ...
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(2013/10/09) My Stockholm Syndrome hasn't kicked in yet (Shutdown) from 2013-10-09T23:00
Edition #762
My Stockholm Syndrome hasn't kicked in yet
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Obama Should Take a Lesson from Reagan - ...
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(2013/10/06) Mind the wealth gap (Economics) from 2013-10-06T23:00
Edition #761
Mind the wealth gap
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale - California Federation of ...
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(2013/10/03) We have an eating disorder (Food) from 2013-10-03T23:00
Edition #760
We have an eating disorder
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Death of Nutrition - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 05-29-...
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(2013/09/30) As we all fiddle (Climate) from 2013-09-30T23:00
Edition #759
As we all fiddle
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: If God Came Back - Louis C.K. - Air Date: 07-24-13
Ch. 3: So...
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(2013/09/27) The sickness in our society (Gun Control) from 2013-09-27T23:00
Edition #758
The sickness in our society
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: More Guns Means More killings - Thom Hartmann - Air Date...
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(2013/09/21) Just say no to empire (Foreign Policy) from 2013-09-21T23:00
Edition #757
Just say no to empire
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: America First - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 07-11-13
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(2013/09/18) Hard to believe this is actually a debate (Islamophobia) from 2013-09-18T23:00
Edition #756
Hard to believe this is actually a debate
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Bryan Fischer: America Will Agree with Him...
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(2013/09/15) Media that leads you to war (Media) from 2013-09-15T23:00
Edition #755
Media that leads you to war
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Comparing Their News To Our News - The Bill Show - Air D...
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(2013/09/12) More stupid, racist policies (Drug War) from 2013-09-12T23:00
Edition #754
More stupid, racist policies
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Racist War On Weed - New ACLU Report - The Young Turks ...
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(2013/09/09) Opposing an attack on Syria (Special Event) from 2013-09-09T23:00
Edition #753
Opposing an attack on Syria
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Obama, Kerry, and the Greater War Crime - Progressive Ma...
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(2013/09/06) Not intentionally all about racism (Immigration) from 2013-09-06T23:00
Edition #752
Not intentionally all about racism
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Heritage Foundation Tries to Kill Immigration...
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(2013/09/03) The value of women (Feminism) from 2013-09-03T23:00
Edition #751
The value of women
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Beyonce - Run the World: LIES - NineteenPercent - Air Date: 5-20-...
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(2013/08/30) The troubling state of the climate, plus jokes (Climate) from 2013-08-30T23:00
Edition #750
The troubling state of the climate, plus jokes
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Climate Change - David Mitchell's Soa...
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(2013/08/27) Exposing the paradigm of economic oppression (Racism) from 2013-08-27T23:00
Edition #749
Exposing the paradigm of economic oppression
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Black Woman Pretends to Be White, Job O...
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(2013/08/21) Steps forward, steps back (LGBTQ) from 2013-08-21T23:00
Edition #748
Steps forward, steps back
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Long Fight For Equality Is Not Over Yet - Dan Savage -...
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(2013/08/18) The fast food worker walkout (Labor) from 2013-08-18T23:00
Edition #747
The fast food worker walkout
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Privileged Tech PR Flack: We Make, Unions Take! - Major...
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(2013/08/15) Andy Griffith for President (NSA Spying) from 2013-08-15T23:00
Edition #746
Andy Griffith for President
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Andy Griffith Vs. the Patriot Act - The Andy Griffith Sh...
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(2013/08/12) The trial of Bradley Manning from 2013-08-12T23:00
Edition #745
The trial of Bradley Manning
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Media's Non-Coverage Of Bradley Manning - CounterSpin -...
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(2013/08/09) Obamacare is not enough (Health Care) from 2013-08-09T23:00
Edition #744
Obamacare is not enough
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Fighting In The Trenches For Reasonable Health Care - David ...
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(2013/08/06) The high cost of higher learning (Education) from 2013-08-06T23:00
Edition #743
The high cost of higher learning
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Reform Leading To Cheating - Jimmy Dore Show - Air ...
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(2013/08/03) The economics of corruption and how to fix it (Economics and Corruption) from 2013-08-03T23:00
Edition #742
The economics of corruption and how to fix it
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Externalities - Sustainable Man - Air ...
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(2013/07/31) What happened to their party (Conservatives) from 2013-07-31T23:00
Edition #741
What happened to their party
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Who LIES More- Republicans or Democrats? - The Young Tu...
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(2013/07/28) High water marks (Climate) from 2013-07-28T23:00
Edition #740
High water marks
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Belief in Bible End Times Stifling Climate Change Action - David Pa...
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(2013/07/25) Cause and effect (Foreign Policy) from 2013-07-25T23:00
Edition #739
Cause and effect
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The New Iraq and Rumsfeld's Rules - le Show - Air Date 5-19-13
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(2013/07/22) The verdict is in(just) (Zimmerman Trail) from 2013-07-22T23:00
Edition #738
The verdict is in(just)
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Zimmerman Verdict: Unequal Justice - The Progressive Magazin...
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(2013/07/19) How we treat those we are responsible for (Prison Nation) from 2013-07-19T23:00
Edition #737
How we treat those we are responsible for
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Aryan Brotherhood's 'Jihadist' Murder...
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(2013/07/16) When they fail, we all lose (Media) from 2013-07-16T23:00
Edition #736
When they fail, we all lose
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: New Sounds Of Change While Everything Remains The Same -...
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(2013/07/13) From personal to cultural (Rape Culture) from 2013-07-13T23:00
Edition #735
From personal to cultural
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Not all rape happens in alleyways - Citizen Radio - Air Da...
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(2013/07/10) No womb is safe (Reproductive Rights) from 2013-07-10T23:00
Edition #734
No womb is safe
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: How Obama Is Handling Plan B - Dan Savage - Air Date 5-7-13
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(2013/07/07) Injustice plays out in two courtrooms (Racism) from 2013-07-07T23:00
Edition #733
Injustice plays out in two courtrooms
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Is There Still Racial Injustice in This Countr...
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(2013/07/04) The downfall of Bill Clinton's legacy (LGBT Rights) from 2013-07-04T23:00
Edition #732
The downfall of Bill Clinton's legacy
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: When Hearts Break - Dan Savage - Air Date 5-14...
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(2013/07/01) Possible movement in the right direction (Climate) from 2013-07-01T23:00
Edition #731
Possible movement in the right direction
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: 400 Parts in a Million The World's Biggest ...
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(2013/06/28) Positive ideas and protests for change (Economics) from 2013-06-28T23:00
Edition #730
Positive ideas and protests for change
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: It's Not Your Fault - Lee Camp - Air Date: 04...
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(2013/06/25) Bad ideas and fundamental flaws (Economics) from 2013-06-25T23:00
Edition #729
Bad ideas and fundamental flaws
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Republicans Want to Yank Food Stamps from the Hungry...
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(2013/06/21) History Lesson (Special Episode) from 2013-06-21T23:00
Edition #728.5
History Lesson
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(2013/06/18) The creation of whiteness and its consequences (Racism) from 2013-06-18T23:00
Edition #728
The creation of whiteness and its consequences
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Who's Saying 1 In 1000 Is Successful ...
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(2013/06/15) Part 2: Shooting the messenger (Civil Rights and Privacy) from 2013-06-15T23:00
Edition #727
Part 2: Shooting the messenger
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(2013/06/12) Part 1: The scandal of continuity (Civil Rights and Privacy) from 2013-06-12T23:00
Edition #726
Part 1: The scandal of continuity
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Big Brother Ups Its Game With Prism - Rachel Maddo...
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(2013/06/09) The week of scandals (AP, IRS, Benghazi) from 2013-06-09T23:00
Edition #725
The week of scandals
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Obama Finally Responds to Faux Benghazi Outrage - Young Turks -...
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(2013/06/06) Part 2: Who's behind our food (Food) from 2013-06-06T23:00
Edition #724
Part 2: Who's behind our food
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Factory Farm Animal Abuse Video Ban Pushed by Lobbyist...
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(2013/06/03) Part 1: What's in our food (Food) from 2013-06-03T23:00
Edition #723
Part 1: What's in our food
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Dairy Industry Petitioning to Hide Aspartame in Milk - Da...
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(2013/05/31) Part 2: The mostly good news (LGBTQ Rights) from 2013-05-31T23:00
Edition #722
Part 2: The mostly good news
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(2013/05/28) Part 1: The mostly bad news (LGBTQ Rights) from 2013-05-28T23:00
Edition #721
Part 1: The mostly bad news
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Republicans Love Gay Marriage - Mark Fiore's Animation -...
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(2013/05/24) George W Bush library rewrites history (Conservatives) from 2013-05-24T23:00
Edition #720
George W Bush library rewrites history
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: George W. Bush: People Are Surprised I Can Ev...
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(2013/05/21) 400 Parts Per Million (Climate/Environment) from 2013-05-21T23:00
Edition #719
400 Parts Per Million
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: NPR's Defense Of Fracking - CounterSpin - Air Date 3-29-13
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(2013/05/18) Homeland Insecurity Part 2: Justice? (Police State) from 2013-05-18T23:00
Edition #718
Homeland Insecurity Part 2: Justice?
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Corporate Prison Nightmare for Employees - The ...
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(2013/05/15) Homeland Insecurity Part 1: Law (Police State) from 2013-05-15T23:00
Edition #717
Homeland Insecurity Part 1: Law
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Teen Arrested For Yelling "Bingo!" in a Bingo Hall -...
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(2013/05/12) Television media is bad at their jobs (Media) from 2013-05-12T23:00
Edition #716
Television media is bad at their jobs
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Sycophancy and denial from Chris Matthews - Ji...
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(2013/05/09) The greatest measure of a society (Guantanamo) from 2013-05-09T23:00
Edition #715
The greatest measure of a society
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(2013/05/06) The Boston Bombings Part 2: as we treat "ourselves" from 2013-05-06T23:00
Edition #714
The Boston Bombings Part 2: as we treat "ourselves"
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Boston Marathon Bombing - How We...
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(2013/05/02) The Boston Bombings Part 1: Treating "others" from 2013-05-02T23:00
Edition #713
The Boston Bombings Part 1: Treating "others"
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: What Boston Can Teach About the World ...
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(2013/04/29) Spills and spoils (Climate/Environment) from 2013-04-29T23:00
Edition #712
Spills and spoils
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Mind blowing Benefits in New Tailpipe Pollution Law - The Young Tu...
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(2013/04/26) Part 2: Solutions, mostly bad ones (Immigration) from 2013-04-26T23:00
Edition #711
Part 2: Solutions, mostly bad ones
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: North Carolina to Mark Immigrants as "Illegal" on...
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(2013/04/23) Part 1: Problems, both political and actual (Immigration) from 2013-04-23T23:00
Edition #710
Problems, both political and actual
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Bipartisan Immigration Reform Out Of Necessity -...
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(2013/04/20) The legacy of Reaganomics (Economics) from 2013-04-20T23:00
Edition #709
The legacy of Reaganomics
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Shocking Income Inequality in the US - David Pakman Show -...
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(2013/04/17) Margaret Thatcher's legacy (Special Event) from 2013-04-17T23:00
Edition #708
Margaret Thatcher's legacy
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Mouseketeer And The Conservative Icon - Jimmy Dore S...
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(2013/04/14) Part 2: Don't ever change (Conservatives) from 2013-04-14T23:00
Edition #707
Part 2: Don't ever change
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Brilliant New Republican Ideas at CPAC? - The Young Turks ...
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(2013/04/11) Part 1: The empathy deficit (Conservatives) from 2013-04-11T23:00
Edition #706
Part 1: The empathy deficit
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Republicans struggle with becoming less intolerant - Thr...
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(2013/04/08) Part 2: The pundits on marriage (LGBTQ) from 2013-04-08T23:00
Edition #705
Part 2: The pundits on marriage
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Condemning Gay Marriage With Ridiculous Logic - This...
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(2013/04/05) Part 1: The court on marriage (LGBTQ) from 2013-04-05T23:00
Edition #704
Part 1: The court on marriage
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Supreme Court Hearing Landmark Gay Rights Cases - Davi...
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(2013/04/02) Some malicious, and some just stupid, things are said (Feminism) from 2013-04-02T23:00
Edition #703
Some malicious, and some just stupid, things are said
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: GOP Training to Learn "Rape is...
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(2013/03/30) As we do unto others (Foreign Policy) (Reposted with new voicemails/commentary) from 2013-03-30T23:00
Edition #573
As we do unto others (Reposted with new voicemails/commentary)
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(2013/03/27) 10 years already? (Foreign Policy) from 2013-03-27T23:00
Edition #702
10 years already?
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Accountability for the Iraq War - The Progressive - Air Date: 3-18...
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(2013/03/24) Part 2: In with the new Pope (Special Event) from 2013-03-24T23:00
Edition #701
Part 2: In with the new Pope
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Pick-A-Pope - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: 02-25-...
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(2013/03/21) Part 1: Out with the old Pope (Special Event) from 2013-03-21T23:00
Edition #700
Part 1: Out with the old Pope
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Pope Benedict XVI Resigns at Age 85 - David Pakman Sho...
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(2013/03/18) Your civil liberties are leaking (Rights) from 2013-03-18T23:00
Edition #699
Your civil liberties are leaking
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Are "We the people" The Real Terrorists? - Thom Har...
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(2013/03/15) The sad state of the GOP (Conservatives) from 2013-03-15T23:00
Edition #698
The sad state of the GOP
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Republican: Make Nipple Slips a Felony - David Pakman Show ...
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(2013/03/12) Part 2: Why we should give to the poor (Economics) from 2013-03-12T23:00
Edition #697
Part 2: Why we should give to the poor
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Government Needs to Put People to Work - Thom...
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(2013/03/09) Part 1: Why we should take from the rich (Economics) from 2013-03-10T00:00
Edition #696
Part 1: Why we should take from the rich
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: S&P Eyed for Role in Economic Crash - Rache...
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(2013/03/06) Our broken fundamentals (Economics) from 2013-03-07T00:00
Edition #695
Our broken fundamentals
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Number One Thing The US Subsidizes Is Ignorance - Lee Ca...
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(2013/03/03) Privilege, context and offense (Racism) from 2013-03-04T00:00
Edition #694
Privilege and context
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Jamie Foxx SNL Joke Makes Conservatives Cry Racism - Young Tur...
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(2013/02/28) Ridiculing Fox isn't just fun, it's important (Media) from 2013-03-01T00:00
Edition #693
Ridiculing Fox isn't just fun, it's important
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Without a Free Fox, There's Not a Free...
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(2013/02/25) How the main stream media fails us (Media) from 2013-02-26T00:00
Edition #692
How the main stream media fails us
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: On 60 Minutes A Half Hour Is Not Enough Time For ...
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(2013/02/22) Forward on Climate (Climate) from 2013-02-23T00:00
Edition #691
Forward on Climate
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Australia Getting So Hot They've Added New Colors to the Weather ...
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(2013/02/19) Part 2: Drones are not the problem, they just highlight the problem (Foreign Policy) from 2013-02-20T00:00
Edition #690
Part 2: Drones are not the problem, they just highlight the problem
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Leaked Memo Reve...
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(2013/02/16) Part 1: The new normal (Foreign Policy) from 2013-02-17T00:00
Edition #689
Part 1: The new normal
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Obama Announces Beginning of End for Afghan War - Rachel Madd...
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(2013/02/13) Part 2: Government is not THE problem, it just HAS problems (Economics) from 2013-02-14T00:00
Edition #688
Part 2: Government is not THE problem, it just HAS problems
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: IMF Economists: oops! We...
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(2013/02/10) Part 1: Corporations are not immoral, they're amoral (Economics) from 2013-02-11T00:00
Edition #686
Part 1: Corporations are not immoral, they're amoral
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Why Do You Do What You Do? - Le...
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(2013/02/07) Treating people equally (Racism) from 2013-02-08T00:00
Edition #686
Treating people equally
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Are White Groups Inherently Racist? - David Pakman Show - Ai...
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(2013/02/04) A plea for sanity (Conservatives) from 2013-02-05T00:00
Edition #685
A plea for sanity
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Will the GOP double down on stupid? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 12...
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(2013/02/01) Arguing for equality (Gay Rights) from 2013-02-02T00:00
Edition #684
Arguing for equality
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Sex with Animals Legal in 20+ States; Gay Marriage: 9 Medical M...
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(2013/01/29) The lesser-known histories (Gun Control) from 2013-01-30T00:00
Edition #683
The lesser-known histories
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The untold story of guns - On The Media - Air Date 12-21-...
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(2013/01/26) The Proposals (Gun Control) from 2013-01-27T00:00
Edition #682
The Proposals
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Can Reasonable Gun Bills Beat Hyperbolic Obstruction? - Rachel Maddow ...
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(2013/01/23) The good, the bad and the conspiratorial (Media) from 2013-01-24T00:00
Edition #681
The good, the bad and the conspiratorial
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(2013/01/20) Believing the unbelievable (Religion) from 2013-01-21T00:00
Edition #680
Believing the unbelievable
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2...
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(2013/01/17) Trigger Warning (Feminism) from 2013-01-18T00:00
Edition #679
Trigger Warning
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Re...
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(2013/01/14) Setting records (Climate Change) from 2013-01-15T00:00
Edition #678
Setting records
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Cl...
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(2013/01/11) America goes cliff diving (Economics) from 2013-01-12T00:00
Edition #677
America goes cliff diving
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2:...
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(2013/01/08) Time to wind it down (Foreign Policy) from 2013-01-09T00:00
Edition #676
Time to wind it down
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Is It Time to End the Global War on Terror? - Rachel Maddow - A...
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(2013/01/05) Sandy Hook Shooting: The Sane Reaction (Gun Control) from 2013-01-06T00:00
Edition #675
Sandy Hook Shooting: The Sane Reaction
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The TRUE Gun Control Debate - Lee Camp - Air ...
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(2013/01/02) Sandy Hook Shooting: The Conservative Reaction (Gun Control) from 2013-01-03T00:00
Edition #674
Sandy Hook Shooting: The Conservative Reaction
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Right Wing: Everything BUT Guns Cause...
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(2012/12/29) This is Pottersville (Economics) from 2012-12-30T00:00
Edition #563
This is Pottersville
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Big Banks Behind Payday Loan Scams - Young Turks Air Date: 12-7...
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(2012/12/24) Our annual collective waste of time (War on Christmas) from 2012-12-24T14:00
Edition #559
Our annual collective waste of time
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Progressives War On Xmas and O'Reilly's Response...
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(2012/12/20) Right to Work is a lie (Labor) from 2012-12-21T00:00
Edition #673
Right to Work is a lie
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Michigan Takes Up War on Unions - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 12...
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(2012/12/17) Good Job America (Drug War) from 2012-12-18T00:00
Edition #672
Good Job America
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Pot Legal in 2 States, Drug Czars Panic - The Young Turks - Air Dat...
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(2012/12/14) How the media is a jerk, bad and getting worse (Media) from 2012-12-15T00:00
Edition #671
How the media is a jerk, bad and getting worse
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The decline of broadcast news in Amer...
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(2012/12/11) Offending women (Feminism) from 2012-12-12T00:00
Edition #670
Offending women
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Limbaugh: Dems See Women as a Vagina - Young Turks - Air Date: 10-25...
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(2012/12/08) The Climate Part 2: The powers that should be (Climate) from 2012-12-09T00:00
Edition #669
The Climate Part 2: The powers that should be
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Brainwashed Fox News Viewer: Shocking ...
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(2012/12/05) The Climate Part 1: The powers that be (Climate) from 2012-12-06T00:00
Edition #668
The Climate Part 1: The powers that be
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Qatar climate talks are underway - Green News...
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(2012/12/02) Disrespect (Foreign Policy) from 2012-12-03T00:00
Edition #667
Disrespect
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Good Riddance, Petraeus - The Progressive - Air Date: 11-12-12
Ch....
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(2012/11/29) The Gaza Ceasefire (Foreign Policy - Israel) from 2012-11-30T00:00
Edition #666
The Gaza Ceasefire
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: 2 Rockets Land Outside Jerusalem, Israel Troops at Border - The D...
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(2012/11/26) Making Thelma and Louise Proud (Economics) from 2012-11-27T00:00
Edition #665
Making Thelma and Louise Proud
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Cliff Diving - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: 11-...
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(2012/11/20) Schadenfreude Part 3: Forward (Elections) from 2012-11-21T00:00
Edition #664
Schadenfreude Part 3: Forward
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Moving forward from the election - Jimmy Dore Show - A...
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(2012/11/17) Schadenfreude Part 2: The Blame (Elections) from 2012-11-18T00:00
Edition #663
Schadenfreude Part 2: The Blame
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Conservatives: We've Lost The Country! - The Young T...
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(2012/11/14) Schadenfreude Part 1: The Meltdown (Elections) from 2012-11-15T00:00
Edition #662
Schadenfreude Part 1: The Meltdown
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Top Story Of The Week - It's Over - The Bugle - A...
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(2012/11/11) Time to eat your mutant vegetables (Food) from 2012-11-12T00:00
Edition #661
Time to eat your mutant vegetables
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Vegetarian By 2050? You Might Not Have A Choice -...
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(2012/11/08) The silver lining of political possibility (Climate) from 2012-11-09T00:00
Edition #660
The silver lining of political possibility
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Urgent Need to Prep for Climate Change Re...
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(2012/11/05) Listen to this on Election Day (Elections) from 2012-11-06T00:00
Edition #659
Listen to this on Election Day
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Wait, WHO Owns The F***ing Voting Machines?! - Lee Ca...
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(2012/11/01) Praying for Reign (Gay Rights) from 2012-11-01T05:00
Edition #658
Praying for Reign
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Pray for Reign - Mark Fiore - Air Date 5-21-12
Ch. 3: Song ...
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(2012/10/27) Maybe if we ask the plutocrats nicely (Economics) from 2012-10-27T23:00
Edition #657
Maybe if we ask the plutocrats nicely
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Burn Your Money! ...Or Maybe Just Put It Away ...
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(2012/10/24) Abuses of power (Religion) from 2012-10-24T04:00
Edition #656
Abuses of power
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: If you want to abuse kids, get ordained first - Dan Savage - Air Dat...
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(2012/10/21) Utter asininity (Media) from 2012-10-21T23:00
Edition #655
Utter asininity
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Fox News Blurs Line with Romney Campaign - Rachel Maddow - Air Date ...
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(2012/17/10) The ick-factor on display (Foreign Policy) from 2012-10-17T23:00
Edition #654
The ick-factor on display
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Explosive Employment - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: ...
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(2012/10/14) Protect your right to participate in this farce (Voter Suppression) from 2012-10-14T23:00
Edition #653
Protect your right to participate in this farce
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Noam Chomsky: Vote for the Lesser of...
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(2012/10/11) The anti-science committee (Women's Rights) from 2012-10-11T23:00
Edition #652
The anti-science committee
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: House Science & Ladyparts Committee - Mark Fiore's Animat...
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(2012/10/08) Doing the math (Climate) from 2012-10-08T23:00
Edition #651
Doing the math
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Nuclear Reactor Unprepared For Global Warming - Majority Report - Air...
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(2012/10/05) Getting in the game (Gay Rights) from 2012-10-05T23:00
Edition #650
Getting in the game
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Awesome Gay Marriage Rant By Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe - The Yo...
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(2012/10/02) Kill the poor (Economics) from 2012-10-02T23:00
Edition #649
Kill the poor
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Forbes 400 Richest Americans List - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-22...
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(2012/09/29) Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized (Drug War) from 2012-09-29T23:00
Edition #648
Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized - Lee Camp - Air...
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(2012/09/26) Shooting the foot that's in his mouth (Elections) from 2012-09-26T23:00
Edition #647
Shooting the foot that's in his mouth
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Inelegant statement about the 47 Percent - Wai...
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(2012/09/23) Support independent news (Media) from 2012-09-23T23:00
Edition #646
Support independent news
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: CNN: During Vietnam, It Was Brave of Mitt Romney to be in F...
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(2012/09/20) The candidates race (Race and the election) from 2012-09-20T23:00
Edition #645
The candidates race
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Romney Trolls Liberals to Please Conservative Base - Rachel Madd...
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(2012/09/17) Teachers make a goddamn difference (Education) from 2012-09-17T23:00
Edition #644
Teachers make a goddamn difference
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Experts Are WRONG and Here's How - LeeCamp - ...
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(2012/09/14) Echoes of the past (Foreign Policy) from 2012-09-14T23:00
Edition #643
Echoes of the past
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Ryan Advisor Pick Dan Senor Spotlights War Policy - Rachel Maddow...
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(2012/09/11) Bigotry is morally disordered and cognitively questionable (Queer Rights) from 2012-09-11T23:00
Edition #642
Bigotry is morally disordered and cognitively questionable
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Gay appreciation in the m...
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(2012/09/08) Suppressing democracy (Voting Rights) from 2012-09-08T23:00
Edition #641
Suppressing democracy
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Suppression, Not The Standard Definition - Counterspin - Air D...
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(2012/09/05) Misdirecting the economy (Economics) from 2012-09-05T23:00
Edition #640
Misdirecting the economy
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Democrats Beat Republicans on 11 of 12 Economic Indicators-...
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(2012/09/02) See how deceitfully they run (GOP) from 2012-09-02T23:00
Edition #639
See how deceitfully they run
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Double-Amputee Duckworth Not A 'True' Military Hero - R...
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(2012/08/30) The crazy side of faith (Religion) from 2012-08-30T23:00
Edition #638
The crazy side of faith
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Abuser Priest Caught in Underwear Chasing Boy Down the Stree...
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(2012/08/27) Racism from the grassroots to the grasstops (Racism) from 2012-08-27T23:00
Edition #637
Racism from the grassroots to the grasstops
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: See Past the Profile - ULGA Young Profes...
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(2012/08/24) Protecting women from their rights (Reproductive rights) from 2012-08-24T23:00
Edition #636
Protecting women from their rights
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Planned Parenthood Is 'Murder For Hire' - N.C. Re...
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(2012/08/21) Get a load of this guy (Paul Ryan) from 2012-08-21T23:00
Edition #635
Get a load of this guy
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The VEEP Pick - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 8-17-12
Ch....
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(2012/08/18) Live to deceive (Media) from 2012-08-18T23:00
Edition #634
Live to deceive
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: CNN's Flawed Coverage of Iran Threat - Young Turks - Air Date 7-16-1...
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(2012/08/15) Consider the true costs (Climate) from 2012-08-15T23:00
Edition #633
Consider the true costs
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Exxon Mobil CEO: Climate Change is No Big Deal, We'll Just A...
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(2012/08/12) Making the list (Foreign Policy) from 2012-08-12T23:00
Edition #632
Making the list
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Romney's Bush-Like Foreign Policy Matters to the World - Rachel Madd...
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(2012/08/09) Film the Police (Police State) from 2012-08-09T23:00
Edition #631
Film the Police
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: United States: #1 in Requesting User Data from Google - Majority Rep...
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(2012/08/06) Still freaking out over Obamacare (Health Care) from 2012-08-06T23:00
Edition #630
Still freaking out over Obamacare
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Uncertainty in DC turns businessmen into children ...
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(2012/08/03) Cutting to the bone (Economics) from 2012-08-03T23:00
Edition #629
Cutting to the bone
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Is The U.S. Being Sold For Parts - Lee Camp - Air Date 5-18-12 Listen
(2012/07/31) Banksta's Paradise (Economics) from 2012-07-31T23:00
Edition #628
Banksta's Paradise
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Either Way - Mark Fiore - Air Date 6-4-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: ...
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(2012/07/26) It's clear who the problem is (GOP) from 2012-07-26T23:00
Edition #627
It's clear who the problem is
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Iowa GOP Platform: Insane - Majority Report
Ch....
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(2012/07/22) People using their imaginations (Religion) from 2012-07-22T23:00
Edition #626
People using their imaginations
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: 'Pistol Whip' Nuns - Conservative Host's Outrageous ...
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(2012/07/19) A woman's place (Feminism) from 2012-07-19T23:00
Edition #625
A woman's place
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: GOP's Woman Up Campaign Comically Fails to Narrow Gender Gap - Rache...
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(2012/07/16) Peeking out of the cave (Media) from 2012-07-16T23:00
Edition #624
Peeking out of the cave
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Trolling For Gaffes - CounterSpin - Air Date: 6-14-12
(2012/07/13) High temperatures, tides and tempers (Climate) from 2012-07-13T23:00
Edition #623
High temperatures, tides and tempers
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Frack It, We're Gonna Be Rich - CounterSpin - A...
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(2012/07/09) Your Plutocracy at Work (Citizens United) from 2012-07-09T23:00
Edition #622
Your Plutocracy at Work
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Why I'm Racist - Lee Camp - Air Date: 01-13-12
Ch. 3:...
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(2012/07/06) The struggle to run and vote for president (Elections) from 2012-07-06T23:00
Edition #621
The struggle to run and vote for president
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: I Pledge Allegiance to Mitt Romney - GOP ...
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(2012/07/03) A victory for the pro-health, pro-tyranny movement (Obamacare) from 2012-07-03T23:00
Edition #620
A victory for the pro-health, pro-tyranny movement
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Important Decision In The News - ...
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(2012/06/30) Not all religious people are bigots, but these are (Gay rights) from 2012-06-30T23:00
Edition #619
Not all religious people are bigots, but these are
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Jane Lynch Coaches the GOP on Gay...
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(2012/06/27) The turning tide (Immigration) from 2012-06-27T23:00
Edition #618
The turning tide
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Big Turnaround in Mexican Immigration - Majority Report - Air Date:...
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(2012/06/24) How the ruling class rules (Economics) from 2012-06-24T23:00
Edition #617
How the ruling class rules
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Great Latvia Success Story - Mark Fiore - Air Date: 6-18-...
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(2012/06/21) Oppressing the majority (War on Women) from 2012-06-21T23:00
Edition #616
Oppressing the majority
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: 'F k You Greg Gutfeld' - Ana Kasparian of TYT on Fox Host's...
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(2012/06/18) Crimes against language, reason and humanity (Foreign Policy) from 2012-06-18T23:00
Edition #615
Crimes against language, reason and humanity
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Obama Administration Changes The Defini...
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(2012/06/15) Follow the Finns (Education) from 2012-06-15T23:00
Edition #614
Follow the Finns
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Tea Party: Remove Slavery From Textbooks In TN - Young Turks - Air...
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(2012/06/12) Profiles in profiling (Racism) from 2012-06-12T23:00
Edition #613
Profiles in profiling
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Attacks on Obama vs Bush - Blacking it up - Air Date: 3-5-12 Listen
(2012/06/06) The freedom you fear (Gun Control) from 2012-06-06T23:00
Edition #612
The freedom you fear
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Dont Let Obama Take Guns from the Republican National Conventio...
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(2012/06/03) Corrupt, feckless and deceptive (Media) from 2012-06-03T23:00
Edition #611
Corrupt, feckless and deceptive
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Relying On Something Quaint And Out Of Date - Jimmy ...
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(2012/05/31) Reflection of the future across the pond (Economics) from 2012-05-31T23:00
Edition #610
Reflection of the future across the pond
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Austerity Rejected Cenk on Elections In Fra...
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(2012/05/28) The Tighter You Clench Your Fist, The Less Sand You Can Hold (Police State) from 2012-05-28T23:00
Edition #609
The Tighter You Clench Your Fist, The Less Sand You Can Hold
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Cyber-Snuggly - Mark Fi...
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(2012/05/25) Get your hocus pocus correct (Religion) from 2012-05-25T19:00
Edition #608
Get your hocus pocus correct
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Pat Robertson's Demonic Possession GREATEST HITS - Davi...
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(2012/05/20) Empire Graveyard (Foreign Policy) from 2012-05-20T17:00
Edition #607
Empire Graveyard
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Curveball Comes Clean on WMD Lies - Majority Report - Air Date: 4-9...
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(2012/05/16) It's ok to not be cynical at least for a moment (Same Sex Marriage) from 2012-05-16T23:00
Edition #606
It's ok to not be cynical at least for a moment
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Harvey Milk - Hope
Ch. 3: Son...
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(2012/05/13) The climate of our discontent (Climate Change) from 2012-05-13T23:00
Edition #605
The climate of our discontent
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Climate change denial think tank industries - Green N...
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(2012/05/10) Two ways forward (Economics) from 2012-05-10T23:00
Edition #604
Two ways forward
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Jesus Budget - Mark Fiore - Air Date: 4-23-12
Ch. 3: Son...
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(2012/05/07) State's Wrongs (State Policies) from 2012-05-07T23:00
Edition #603
State's Wrongs
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Shoot-em-up Charlie Discovers ALEC - Mark Fiore - Air Date 4-4-12
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(2012/05/04) An examination of motivations (GOP) from 2012-05-04T23:00
Edition #602
An examination of motivations
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Both sides silence their moderates - Counterspin - Air...
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(2012/05/01) Bin Laden's death anniversary group hug (Special Event) from 2012-05-01T23:00
Edition #601
Bin Laden's death anniversary group hug
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Jay!'s original comments on Bin Laden's deat...
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(2012/04/28) It shouldn't matter but it does (Racism) from 2012-04-28T23:00
Edition #600
It shouldn't matter but it does
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Racist Rant Gets John Derbyshire Fired From National...
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(2012/04/25) Fear of the other (Racism) from 2012-04-25T23:00
Edition #599
Fear of the other
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Supreme court revisiting affirmative action - Blacking It Up - Air...
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(2012/04/22) The miracle of life and the prevention thereof (War on Women) from 2012-04-22T23:00
Edition #598
The miracle of life and the prevention thereof
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Anti-Abortion Bill Says Hospitals Sho...
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(2012/04/19) GOP election plan to attack 53 percent of electorate (War on women) from 2012-04-19T23:00
Edition #597
GOP election plan to attack 53 percent of electorate
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Why Are You On Birth Control, E...
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(2012/04/16) Al fresco brunch apocalypse (Climate) from 2012-04-16T23:00
Edition #596
Al fresco brunch apocalypse
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: 20,000 High Temp Records Broken - Wait Wait Don't Tell M...
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(2012/04/13) More fruitless yet cathartic complaining about the media (Media) from 2012-04-13T23:00
Edition #595
More fruitless yet cathartic complaining about the media
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The failures of Howard Kurt...
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(2012/04/10) Discrimination, oppression and civil rights (LGBTQ Rights) from 2012-04-10T23:00
Edition #594
Discrimination, oppression and civil rights
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: I Want To Know What It's Like - Ryan Jam...
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(2012/04/07) If God exists I hope he has a good excuse (Religion) from 2012-04-07T23:00
Edition #593
If God exists I hope he has a good excuse
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Tolerance And Holding It Inside - Jimmy Do...
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(2012/04/04) From Wall St to Washington (Economics) from 2012-04-04T23:00
Edition #592
From Wall St to Washington
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Greg Smith Quits Goldman Sachs - Wait wait don't tell me ...
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(2012/04/01) Unconstitutional (Police State) from 2012-04-01T23:00
Edition #591
Unconstitutional
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Anti-Occupy Law Passed By Congress, White House Nearly Unanimously ...
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(2012/03/29) They live among us and they're normal (Religious Tolerance) from 2012-03-29T23:00
Edition #590
They live among us and they're normal
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(2012/03/26) The wrongful death of Trayvon Martin (Racism) from 2012-03-26T23:00
Edition #589
The wrongful death of Trayvon Martin
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Introduction to the Trayvon Martin Case - Black...
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(2012/03/23) Smash Patriarchy (Feminism) from 2012-03-23T23:00
Edition #588
Smash Patriarchy
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(2012/03/20) The lives and tragic deaths of media tyrants (Media) from 2012-03-20T23:00
Edition #587
The lives and tragic deaths of media tyrants
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(2012/03/17) The US Empire and the Ring of Power (Foreign Policy) from 2012-03-17T23:00
Edition #586
The US Empire and the Ring of Power
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(2012/03/14) If it looks, walks and quacks like a nuclear duck (Foreign Policy) from 2012-03-14T23:00
Edition #585
If it looks, walks and quacks like a nuclear duck
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(2012/03/11) Bullies, bad words and birth control (Limbaugh v Fluke) from 2012-03-11T23:00
Edition #584
Bullies, bad words and birth control
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(2012/03/08) The game is rigged (Economics) from 2012-03-09T00:00
Edition #583
The game is rigged
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(2012/03/05) The highly territorial subgenus of the GOP (GOP and State Policies) from 2012-03-06T00:00
Edition #582
The highly territorial subgenus of the GOP
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(2012/03/02) Just some of the problems (Religion) from 2012-03-03T00:00
Edition #581
Just some of the problems
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(2012/02/28) The War on Women Part 2: Subjugation from 2012-02-29T00:00
Edition #580
The War on Women Part 2: Subjugation
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(2012/02/25) The War on Women Part 1: Contraception from 2012-02-26T00:00
Edition #579
The War on Women Part 1: Contraception
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(2012/02/22) Sweater Vest Man Rises (Elections) from 2012-02-23T00:00
Edition #578
Sweater Vest Man Rises
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(2012/02/19) This episode is totally gay (LGBTTIQQ2SA Rights) from 2012-02-20T00:00
Edition #577
This episode is totally gay
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(2012/02/16) And you thought national politics was crazy (GOP State Politics) from 2012-02-17T00:00
Edition #576
And you thought national politics was crazy
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(2012/02/13) Where the money hits the road (Climate Change) from 2012-02-14T00:00
dition #575
Where the money hits the road
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(2012/02/10) We're all the scarecrow now (Economics) from 2012-02-11T00:00
Edition #574
We're all the scarecrow now
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(2012/02/07) As we do unto others (Foreign Policy) from 2012-02-08T00:00
Edition #573
As we do unto others
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(2012/02/04) Bad and badder (Elections) from 2012-02-05T00:00
Edition #572
Bad and badder
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(2012/01/31) The President said some things (State of the Union) from 2012-02-01T00:00
Edition #571
The President said some things
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(2012/01/28) Stop Internet Censorship (SOPA and PIPA) from 2012-01-29T00:00
Edition #570
Stop Internet Censorship
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(2012/01/25) Prison Nation - Then and Now (Police State) from 2012-01-26T00:00
Edition #569
Prison Nation - Then and Now
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(2012/01/22) As the campaign rolls on (Elections) from 2012-01-23T00:00
Edition #568
As the campaign rolls on
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(2012/01/19) Of the people, by the people and for the one percent (Economics) from 2012-01-20T00:00
Edition #567
Of the people, by the people and for the one percent
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(2012/01/16) The state of the media continues to embarrass (Media) from 2012-01-17T00:00
Edition #566
The state of the media continues to embarrass
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(2012/01/13) Choose and lose (Elections) from 2012-01-14T00:00
Edition #565
Choose and lose
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(2012/01/10) Basic human rights (Gay Rights) from 2012-01-11T00:00
Edition #564
Basic human rights
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(2012/01/07) This is Pottersville (Economics) from 2012-01-08T00:00
Edition #563
This is Pottersville
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(2012/01/04) Occupy My Heart (Occupy Wall St Part 12) from 2012-01-05T00:00
Edition #562
Occupy My Heart
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(2012/01/01) Sorry about that (Foreign Policy) from 2012-01-02T00:00
Edition #561
Sorry about that
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(2011/12/29) Year of the uprising (Occupy Wall St Part 11) from 2011-12-30T00:00
Edition #560
Year of the uprising
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(2011/12/21) Our annual collective waste of time (War on the war on Christmas) from 2011-12-22T00:00
Edition #559
Our annual collective waste of time
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(2011/12/17) The establishment vs the rabble at the gate (Elections) from 2011-12-18T00:00
Edition #558
The establishment vs the rabble at the gate
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(2011/12/14) Why we're winning (Occupy Wall St Part 10) from 2011-12-15T00:00
Edition #557
Why we're winning
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(2011/12/11) Keeping Wall St Occupied (Occupy Wall St Part 9) from 2011-12-12T00:00
Edition #556
Keeping Wall St Occupied
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(2011/12/08) Go to the mat for liberty or to 3rd base with the TSA (Police State) from 2011-12-09T00:00
Edition #555
Go to the mat for liberty or to 3rd base with the TSA
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(2011/12/05) The meaning of life (Feminism Adjacent) from 2011-12-06T00:00
Edition #554
The meaning of life
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(2011/12/02) Our entire elections process is an art project (Elections) from 2011-12-03T00:00
Edition #553
Our entire elections process is an art project
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(2011/11/29) Pepper spray is a weapon, not a seasoning (Occupy Wall St Part 8) from 2011-11-30T00:00
Edition #552
Pepper spray is a weapon, not a seasoning
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(2011/11/23) The police are the 99 percent too (Occupy Wall St Part 7) from 2011-11-24T00:00
Edition #551
The police are the 99 percent too
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(2011/11/20) Advocating for selfish altruism (Economics) from 2011-11-21T00:00
Edition #550
Advocating for selfish altruism
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(2011/11/18) Beyond the water's edge (Foreign Policy) from 2011-11-18T00:00
Edition #549
Beyond the water's edge
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(2011/11/14) 20 acts in 60 minutes (Immigration) from 2011-11-15T00:00
Edition #548
20 acts in 60 minutes
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(2011/11/11) Then they fight you (Occupy Wall St Part 6) from 2011-11-12T00:00
Edition #547
Then they fight you (Occupy Wall St Part 6)
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(2011/11/08) The whole world is, in fact, watching and taking part (Occupy Wall St. Part 5) from 2011-11-09T00:00
Edition #546
The world is, in fact, watching and taking part
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(2011/11/05) Excessive inequality (Economics) from 2011-11-05T23:00
Edition #545
Excessive inequality
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(2011/11/02) Well, that's settled then (Climate Change) from 2011-11-02T23:00
Edition #544
Well, that's settled then
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(2011/10/30) The peace process (Israel) from 2011-10-30T23:00
Edition #543
The peace process
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(2011/10/27) Greed is no longer good (Occupy Wall St Part 4) from 2011-10-27T23:00
Edition #542
Greed is no longer good
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(2011/10/24) Unite like an Egyptian (Occupy Wall St Part 3) from 2011-10-24T23:00
dition #541
Unite like an Egyptian
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(2011/10/21) Echoes of war (Foreign Policy) from 2011-10-21T23:00
Edition #540
Echoes of war
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(2011/10/18) We are the other 99 percent (Occupy Wall St Part 2) from 2011-10-18T23:00
Edition #539
We are the other 99 percent (Occupy Wall St Part 2)
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(2011/10/15) The 99 Percent Wakes Up (Occupy Wall St Part 1) from 2011-10-15T23:00
Edition #538
The 99 Percent Wakes Up (Occupy Wall St Part 1)
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(2011/10/12) Embarrassing pack of losers (Elections) from 2011-10-12T23:00
Edition #537
Embarrassing pack of losers
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(2011/10/09) Give me an actual number (Troy Davis and the Death Penalty) from 2011-10-09T23:00
Edition #536
Give me an actual number
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(2011/10/06) You are what and how you eat (Food) from 2011-10-06T23:00
Edition #535
You are what and how you eat
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(2011/10/02) As the class war rages (Economics) from 2011-10-02T23:00
Edition #534
As the class war rages
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(2011/09/29) The Jobs Plan (Economics) from 2011-09-29T23:00
Edition #533
The Jobs Plan
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(2011/09/26) In need of a new paradigm (Education) from 2011-09-26T23:00
Edition #532
In need of a new paradigm
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(2011/09/23) Join a Moving Planet Event on Sept 24 at Moving-Planet.org (Climate) from 2011-09-23T23:00
Edition #531
Join a Moving Planet Event on Sept 24 at Moving-Planet.org
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(2011/09/20) Send in the clowns (Elections) from 2011-09-20T23:00
Edition #530
Send in the clowns
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(2011/09/17) Going soft (Media) from 2011-09-17T23:00
Edition #529
Going soft
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(2011/09/14) At least the war on the middle class is going well (Economics) from 2011-09-14T23:00
Edition #528
At least the war on the middle class is going well
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(2011/09/11) To both mock and defend (Religion) from 2011-09-11T23:00
Edition #527
To both mock and defend
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(2011/09/08) Perry, Bachmann and Obama (Elections) from 2011-09-08T23:00
Edition #526
Perry, Bachman and Obama
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(2011/09/05) World of Class Warfare (Economics) from 2011-09-05T23:00
Edition #525
World of Class Warfare
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(2011/09/02) Fighting to avoid game over (Climate Change) from 2011-09-02T23:00
Edition #524
Fighting to avoid game over
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(2011/08/30) Struggling for coverage (Health Care) from 2011-08-30T23:00
Edition #523
Struggling for coverage
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(2011/08/27) The Great Failing (Drug War) from 2011-08-27T23:00
Edition #522
The Great Failing
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(2011/08/23) Chipping at the patriarchy (Feminism) from 2011-08-23T23:00
Edition #521
Chipping at the patriarchy
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(2011/08/20) If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine (Media) from 2011-08-20T23:00
Edition #520
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine
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(2011/08/17) The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 3 (Special Event) from 2011-08-17T23:00
Edition #519
The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 3
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(2011/08/14) Choosing among disasters (Elections) from 2011-08-14T23:00
Edition #518
Choosing among disasters
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(2011/08/11) Down the path of intolerance (Religion and Terrorism in Norway) from 2011-08-11T23:00
Edition #517
Down the path of intolerance
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(2011/08/08) The rich get richer (Economics) from 2011-08-08T23:00
Edition #516
The rich get richer
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(2011/08/05) Can't buy me love (Elections) from 2011-08-05T23:00
Edition #515
Can't buy me love
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(2011/08/02) The manufactured debt crisis Part 2 (Special Event) from 2011-08-02T23:00
Edition #514
The manufactured debt crisis Part 2
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(2011/07/30) The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 2 (Special Event) from 2011-07-30T23:00
Edition #513
The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 2
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(2011/07/27) The manufactured debt crisis Part 1 (Special Event) from 2011-07-27T23:00
Edition #512
The manufactured debt crisis Part 1
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(2011/07/24) The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 1 (Special Event) from 2011-07-24T23:00
Edition #511
The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 1
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(2011/07/21) The dangers of inaction (Climate Change) from 2011-07-21T23:00
Edition #510
The dangers of inaction
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(2011/07/18) War is business (Foreign Policy) from 2011-07-18T23:00
Edition #509
War is business
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(2011/07/15) Too much power for anyone to have (Police State) from 2011-07-15T23:00
Edition #508
Too much power for anyone to have
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(2011/07/12) Laugh, cry and cheer (Gay rights) from 2011-07-12T23:00
Edition #507
Laugh, cry and cheer
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(2011/07/09) 1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a class war (Economics) from 2011-07-09T23:00
Edition #506
1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a class war
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(2011/07/06) Soft bigotry of low expectations (Elections) from 2011-07-06T23:00
Edition #505
Soft bigotry of low expectations
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(2011/07/03) The Backfire Effects (Media) from 2011-07-03T23:00
Edition #504
The Backfire Effects
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(2011/06/30) The pivot point (Foreign Policy) from 2011-06-30T23:00
Edition #503
The pivot point
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(2011/06/28) Making the connection (Climate) from 2011-06-28T23:00
Edition #502
Making the connection
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(2011/06/25) Will the real moderates please stand up (Religion) from 2011-06-25T23:00
Edition #501
Will the real moderates please stand up
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(2011/06/22) Election-Related 500TH EPISODE SPECTACULAR from 2011-06-22T23:00
Edition #500!
Election-Related 500TH EPISODE SPECTACULAR
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(2011/06/20) Deregulating and misusing the media (Media) from 2011-06-20T23:00
Edition #499
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(2011/06/17) Big brother and getting bigger (Police State) from 2011-06-17T18:15
Edition #498
Big brother and getting bigger
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(2011/06/14) It gets worse (2012 Elections) from 2011-06-14T23:00
Edition #497
It gets worse
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(2011/06/12) Corrosive, consolidated power (Foreign Policy) from 2011-06-12T23:00
Edition #496
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(2011/06/08) More than one way to not trust the media (Media) from 2011-06-08T23:00
Edition #495
More than one way to not trust the media
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(2011/06/05) No war but class war (Economics) from 2011-06-05T23:00
Edition #494
No war but class war
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(2011/06/02) Fiscal and physical health (Health Care) from 2011-06-02T23:00
Edition #493
Fiscal and physical health
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(2011/05/30) Dumb as the fossils we burn (Energy and climate) from 2011-05-30T23:00
Edition #492
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(2011/05/27) Land of the free, home of the brave (Police State) from 2011-05-27T20:39:39
Edition #491
Land of the free, home of the brave
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(2011/05/24) A 1-year oil spill retrospective (Oil Spill) from 2011-05-24T23:00
Edition #490
A 1-year oil spill retrospective
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(2011/05/22) A broken system gears up for another round (Elections) from 2011-05-22T23:00
Edition #489
A broken system gears up for another round
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(2011/05/19) Examine, critique, ridicule and defend (Religion) from 2011-05-19T23:00
Edition #488
Examine, critique, ridicule and defend
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(2011/05/16) Things are complicated (Bin Laden) from 2011-05-16T23:00
Edition #487
Things are complicated
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(2011/05/13) Laden with problems, hungry for solutions (Economics) from 2011-05-13T23:00
Edition #486
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(2011/05/11) Not time for a pep rally (Bin Laden) from 2011-05-11T23:00
Edition #485
Not time for a pep rally
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(2011/05/07) Our wars and their costs (Foreign Policy) from 2011-05-07T23:00
Edition #484
Our wars and their costs
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(2011/05/04) Voter and candidate suppression (Elections) from 2011-05-04T19:00
Edition #483
Voter and candidate suppression
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(2011/05/01) Oil spill anniversary and Power Shift 2011 (Environment) from 2011-05-01T23:00
Edition #482
Oil spill anniversary and Power Shift 2011
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(2011/04/28) Your body is a battleground (Feminism, mostly abortion) from 2011-04-28T23:00
Edition #481
Your body is a battleground
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(2011/04/26) The monkey is not a reference to Obama (Economics) from 2011-04-26T23:00
Edition #480
The monkey is not a reference to Obama
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(2011/04/23) Unsettling settlements (Israel) from 2011-04-23T23:00
Edition #479
Unsettling settlements
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(2011/04/20) Between Scylla and Charybdis (Elections 2012) from 2011-04-20T23:00
Edition #478
Between Scylla and Charybdis
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(2011/04/17) Under every rock (GOP and the Koch Bros) from 2011-04-17T23:00
Edition #477
Under every rock
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(2011/04/14) Good news for the big guys (Economics) from 2011-04-14T23:00
Edition #476
Good news for the big guys
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(2011/04/12) The GlennPocalypse (Media) from 2011-04-12T23:00
Edition #475
The GlennPocalypse
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(2011/04/09) Our third war (Foreign Policy) from 2011-04-09T23:00
Edition #474
Our third war
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(2011/04/06) They only call it class war when we fight back (Economics) from 2011-04-06T23:00
Edition #473
They only call it class war when we fight back
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(2011/04/03) Some people are gay, get over it (Gay Rights) from 2011-04-03T23:00
Edition #472
Some people are gay, get over it
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(2011/03/31) And it begins (Elections) from 2011-03-31T23:00
Edition #471
And it begins
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(2011/03/29) The Idiots are taking over (Congress) from 2011-03-29T23:00
Edition #470
The Idiots are taking over
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(2011/03/26) McCarthyism Redux (Religious Tolerance) from 2011-03-26T23:00
Edition #469
McCarthyism Redux
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(2011/03/23) Wisconsin state workers protest Part 3 from 2011-03-23T23:00
Edition #468
Wisconsin state workers protest Part 3
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(2011/03/19) Media under attack from all angles (Media) from 2011-03-19T23:00
Edition #467
Media under attack from all angles
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(2011/03/15) No time to lose (Climate Change) from 2011-03-15T23:00
Edition #466
No time to lose
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(2011/03/12) Easing the decline (Foreign Policy) from 2011-03-13T00:00
Edition #465
Easing the decline
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(2011/03/09) A whole show about broads (Feminism) from 2011-03-10T00:00
Edition #464
A whole show about broads
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(2011/03/06) Wisconsin state workers protest Part 2 from 2011-03-07T00:00
Edition #463
Wisconsin state workers protest Part 2
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(2011/03/03) Condoms, confessions, evolution and Evangelicals (Religion) from 2011-03-04T00:00
Edition #462
Condoms, confessions, evolution and Evangelicals
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(2011/03/01) Wisconsin state workers protest Part 1 from 2011-03-02T00:00
Edition #461
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(2011/02/26) Dying for economic justice (Economics) from 2011-02-27T00:00
Edition #460
Dying for economic justice
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(2011/02/23) Revolution in Egypt Part 3 A revolution well done from 2011-02-24T00:00
Edition #459
Revolution in Egypt Part 3 A revolution well done
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(2011/02/20) Revolution in Egypt Part 2 Conservatives and the coverage from 2011-02-21T00:00
Edition #458
Revolution in Egypt Part 2 Conservatives and the coverage
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(2011/02/17) Revolution in Egypt Part 1 In support of self-determination from 2011-02-18T00:00
Edition #457
Revolution in Egypt Part 1 In support of self-determination
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(2011/02/15) A collection of embarrassments (Media) from 2011-02-16T00:00
Edition #456
A collection of embarrassments
Act 1: Kirk Cameron less crazy than CNN - Majority Report
Song 1: My brother the ape - They might be giants
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(2011/02/12) A Tribute to Olbermann and Countdown (Special Event) from 2011-02-13T00:00
Edition #455
A Tribute to Olbermann and Countdown
Act 1: The real history of the Bush administration - Countdown
Song 1: Missed the boat - Modest Mouse
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(2011/02/09) A call for gun control after the Giffords Shooting from 2011-02-10T00:00
Edition #454
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(2011/02/06) The unfinished story of filibuster reform (Filibuster) from 2011-02-07T00:00
Edition #453
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(2011/01/29) When the cluelesss are in control (Climate Change) from 2011-01-30T00:00
Edition #450
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(2011/01/26) Wide Angle Lens (Economics and 5-Year Anniversary Show!) from 2011-01-27T00:00
Edition #449
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(2011/01/23) The United States of America has gone mad (Foreign Policy) from 2011-01-24T00:00
Edition #448
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(2011/01/15) Health Care Debate Past and Present (Health Care) from 2011-01-16T03:00
Edition #445
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(2011/01/12) Total, utter and crushing progressive victory (DADT) from 2011-01-13T00:00
Edition #444 Listen
(2011/01/09) Fighting those who are willfully ignorant (Climate Change) from 2011-01-10T01:52:35
Edition #443
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(2011/01/04) The dark side of the penal system start to finish (Police State) from 2011-01-05T00:00
Edition #441
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BONUS! Repost from October 24th, 2009 Still legally treated as second-class citizens (Gay Rights) from 2010-12-29T18:31
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BONUS! Repost from June 15th, 2006 - Fill in Incredibly Clever Title About the Media Here (Media) from 2010-12-20T23:42:29
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(2010/12/16) The Bad Deal Part 2 - The Politicians Strike Back (Tax Compromise) from 2010-12-16T18:33:17
Edition #439
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(2010/12/05) People scared clothes-less and world powers exposed (International Security) from 2010-12-06T00:00
Edition #435
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BONUS! Repost from May 8th, 2006 - He may be a failure, but he's our failure (Colbert Roasts Bush) from 2010-11-28T00:00
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(2010/11/24) Giving voice to the powerless (Immigration) from 2010-11-25T02:00:36
Edition #432
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(2010/11/21) Confessions of a ghost writer (Foreign Policy) from 2010-11-22T01:49
Edition #431
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(2010/11/16) And let us never speak of it again (Rally for Sanity and/or Fear) from 2010-11-16T20:54
Edition #429
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(2010/11/07) The system is damaged but our expectations are broken (Education) from 2010-11-07T22:32:27
Edition #426
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(2010/10/19) The asylum is holding elections, don't let the inmates be the only voters (Elections) from 2010-10-20T03:20
Edition #419
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(2010/10/16) Math has a well known liberal bias (Economics) from 2010-10-17T00:00
Edition #418
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(2010/10/13) Lunatics on the right, broken system, support the fighters (Elections) from 2010-10-14T00:00
Edition #417
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(2010/10/10) Today is 350.org's Global Work Party (Climate Change) from 2010-10-11T00:00
Edition #416
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(2010/10/07) You thought you were angry at Wall Street before (Economics) from 2010-10-08T00:00
Edition #415
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(2010/10/05) Executing a war, civilians and our strategy of empire (Foreign Policy) from 2010-10-06T00:31:17
Edition #414
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(2010/09/26) A look at the Republican Tea Party (GOP) from 2010-09-27T03:42
Edition #411
A look at the Republican Tea Party
Act 1: GOP congress – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: I Miss You – blink-182
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(2010/09/23) The economics of happiness and anger (Economics) from 2010-09-24T00:00
Edition #410
The economics of happiness and anger
Act 1: Fox News job opening - Colbert Report
Song 1: Work - Bob Marley
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(2010/09/21) Do it yourself universe, God not required (Religion) from 2010-09-21T23:51
Edition #409
Do it yourself universe, God not required
Act 1: Evangelical Christian Terrorists - Young Turks
Song 1: Early in the morning - Peter, Paul And...
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(2010/09/18) Continuing march toward equal rights (Gay Rights) from 2010-09-19T00:00
Edition #408
Continuing march toward equal rights
Act 1: Reaction to the Prop 8 Ruling - Jimmy Dore Show
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(2010/09/15) War is over, but not really (Foreign Policy) from 2010-09-15T23:32:51
Edition #407
War is over, but not really
Act 1: Richard Engle on the Taliban in Afghanistan - Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Reach out in the darkness - Friend and Lover...
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(2010/09/12) Election season in full swing (Elections) from 2010-09-13T00:00
Edition #406
Election season in full swing
Act 1: What's next for campaign finance - Bill Moyers Journal
Song 1: Save tonight - Eagle-Eyed Cherry
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(2010/09/09) Countdown to Beckopalypse has Begun (Media) from 2010-09-09T22:17:09
Edition #405
Countdown to Beckopalypse has Begun
Act 1: Cenk takes on Fox News - The Ed Show
Song 1: One - Apocalyptica
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(2010/09/07) Citizen Kant or Radio Dispatches from the Occupied South (Immigration) from 2010-09-08T00:00
Edition #404
Citizen Kant or Radio Dispatches from the Occupied South
Act 1: Citizenship down - Colbert Report
Song 1: Slave song - Sade
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(2010/09/04) Rachel Maddow gives credit where credit is due (Foreign Policy) from 2010-09-05T00:00
Edition #403
Rachel Maddow gives credit where credit is due
Act 1: 9 Billion lost - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Where Did It Go - Jimmy Cliff
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(2010/09/01) The economics of stupidity (Economics) from 2010-09-01T23:59:08
Edition #402
The economics of stupidity
Act 1: The Word - Ownership society - Colbert Report
Song 1: Different names for the same thing - Death Cab For Cutie Listen
(2010/08/29) The Beckoning (Rights) from 2010-08-29T16:00
Edition #401
The Beckoning
Act 1: The ACLU on Obama's 'New normal' - On the Media
Song 1: Harold T. Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time - Fanfarlo
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(2010/08/26) So much for don't be evil (Net Neutrality) from 2010-08-27T02:00
Edition #400
So much for don't be evil
Act 1: So much for 'don't be evil' - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Blueprint - Arkells
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(2010/08/24) Climate bill killed as the world melts (Climate Change) from 2010-08-25T02:10
Edition #399
Climate bill killed as the world melts
Act 1: The trouble with fracking - Rachel Maddow
Song 1: That's all - Clare and the Reasons
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(2010/08/21) This is a total waste of our time (Park 51) from 2010-08-21T20:59:18
Edition #398
This is a total waste of our time
Act 1: Cat and Mosque - Mark Fiore
Song 1: Anywhere is - Enya
Act 2: Municipal land-use update - Daily Sho...
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(2010/08/18) The morale of the troops (Gay Rights) from 2010-08-19T01:00
Edition #397
The morale of the troops
Act 1: Lt. Dan Choi finally discharged - Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Honesty - Billy Joel
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(2010/08/15) Mentally and morally bankrupt economics (Economics) from 2010-08-15T16:00
Edition #396
Mentally and morally bankrupt economics
Act 1: Killing an ant with a nuclear bomb - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: High hopes - Frank Sinatra
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(2010/08/12) Another giant distraction based on bigotry (Immigration) from 2010-08-12T23:05
Edition #395
Another giant distraction based on bigotry
Act 1: Be nice to minorities - Bill Maher
Song 1: We are going to be friends - White Stripes
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(2010/08/10) A battle finally won in the war (Gay Rights) from 2010-08-10T21:43
Edition #394
A battle finally won in the war
Act 1: Lesbian mothers - Colbert Report
Song 1: Middle Class Boy - Theo Bard
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(2010/08/07) Shirley you jest, Obama (Shirley Sherrod) from 2010-08-07T20:43
Edition ##393
Shirley you jest, Obama
Act 1: The Obama Paradox - Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Who's crying now - Journey
Act 2: Shep Smith rips Fox - Young...
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(2010/08/04) WikiFrenzy (Foreign Policy) from 2010-08-04T22:35
Edition #392
WikiFrenzy
Act 1: Just got the carfax - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Aegean Wave - Suzanne Ciani
Act 2: Documents - Rachel Maddow Listen
(2010/08/01) Not right, not fair and not justice (Law Enforcement) from 2010-08-01T12:00
Edition #391
Not right, not fair and not justice
Act 1: Gary Johnson, Pro-pot activist - Colbert Report
Song 1: Drug Ballad - Eminem
Act 2: How the ...
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(2010/07/29) Reverse Robin Hood Republicans (Economics) from 2010-07-29T23:54
Edition #390
Reverse Robin Hood Republicans
Act 1: GOP on raising retirement age, cut benefits - Young Turks
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(2010/07/27) Religious Justice League (Religion) from 2010-07-27T12:00
Edition #389
Religious Justice League
Act 1: Banning haircuts - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Painted by numbers - The Sounds
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(2010/07/24) Torture is Un-American so we don't call it that (Media) from 2010-07-24T15:17:09
Edition #388
Torture is Un-American so we don't call it that
Act 1: Blame - Daily Show
Song 1: Blame it on the Tetons - Modest Mouse
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(2010/07/21) The state of the empire (Foreign Policy) from 2010-07-21T12:00
Edition #387
The state of the empire
Act 1: McChrystal article by Michael Hastings - Colbert Report
Song 1: The moment I said it - Imogen Heap
Act 2: Gap...
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(2010/07/18) Thank you BP (Oil Spill) from 2010-07-18T12:59:16
Edition #386
Thank you BP
Act 1: Endless bummers - Daily Show
Song 1: My name is Jonas - Weezer
Act 2: Shep Smith slams Fox News defending BP - Young Tur...
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(2010/07/15) A flawed and broken paradigm (Economics) from 2010-07-15T22:43:08
Edition #385
A flawed and broken paradigm
Act 1: Pros and cons of financial reform bill - Young Turks
Song 1: Satellite - Guster
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(2010/07/13) Kagan's vapid and hollow confirmation (Supreme Court) from 2010-07-13T18:10:50
Edition #384
Kagan's vapid and hollow confirmation
Act 1: Kagan on Supreme Court confirmations - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Play the game - Shout Out Louds...
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(2010/07/10) A celebration of science (Climate Change) from 2010-07-10T18:00
Edition #383
A celebration of science
Act 1: NUMMI is reborn for electric cars - NPR
Song 1: Electric car - They might be giants
Act 2: News of the warm ...
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(2010/07/07) Obama and GOP speak on oil spill (Oil Spill) (MP3) from 2010-07-07T19:20:45
Edition #382
Obama and GOP speak on oil spill
Act 1: Day 58, Obama's speech - Daily Show
Song 1: Friend of the Devil - Counting Crows
Act 2: President's ...
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(2010/07/04) Wars, Crimes and War Crimes (Foreign Policy) (MP3) from 2010-07-04T15:19:37
Edition #381
Wars, Crimes and War Crimes
Act 1: Back in Black - Mark Fiore
Song 1: Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin
Act 2: Bush admits to war crimes - Count...
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(2010/07/01) Oil Apologies (Oil Spill) (MP3) from 2010-07-01T09:00
Edition #380
Oil Apologies
Act 1: Trust me - Mark Fiore
Song 1: Happy to be stuck with you - Huey Lewis and the News
Act 2: We care about the small peopl...
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(2010/06/29) The Breakup of the Year (Foreign Policy) (MP3) from 2010-06-29T17:21:28
Edition #379
(2010/06/26) Media is weak and getting weaker (Media) (MP3) from 2010-06-26T11:00
Edition #378
(2010/06/23) Yet another oil spill show (Oil Spill) (MP3) from 2010-06-23T16:47:49
Edition #377
Yet another oil spill show
Act 1: Crude and Unusual - Colbert Report
Song 1: White flag - Dido
Act 2: BP RIP - Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Addicted to oil - Le Show
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(2010/06/20) Yeah, still going on (Oil Spill (MP3) from 2010-06-20T17:19:39
Edition #376
(2010/06/17) An Armada of Humanaterrorists (Israel) (MP3) from 2010-06-17T20:45:12
Edition #375
(2010/06/15) We're all covered in oil (Oil Spill) (MP3) from 2010-06-15T18:00
Edition #374
(2010/06/12) Lots of swears about religion (Religion) (MP3) from 2010-06-12T07:30
Edition #373
(2010/06/08) You (nearly) have the right to remain honest (Gay Rights) (MP3) from 2010-06-08T08:00
Edition #372
You (nearly) have the right to remain honest
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(2010/06/05) Stop me if you've heard this before (Oil Spill) (MP3) from 2010-06-05T08:00
Edition #371
(2010/06/03) Analysis and warnings, we see it coming (Economics) (MP3) from 2010-06-03T03:05:14
Edition #370
(2010/06/01) Out of the mouths of infant-minded adults (Tea Party) (MP3) from 2010-06-01T08:00
Edition #369
(2010/05/29) Their fault, our fault, your fault, my fault (Oil Spill) (MP3) from 2010-05-29T16:00
Edition #368
(2010/05/26) Arrest the Pope (Religion) (MP3) from 2010-05-26T18:58
Edition #367
(2010/05/23) Horrifying health care aftermath (Health Care) (MP3) from 2010-05-23T16:17:46
Edition #366
(2010/05/20) Valid and moronic arguments against Kagan (Supreme Court) (MP3) from 2010-05-21T00:38:23
(2010/05/18) Delusions of fascism, journalism and grandeur (Media) (MP3) from 2010-05-18T22:14:20
(2010/05/15) Wrongheaded reactions, foreign and domestic (Foreign Policy) (MP3) from 2010-05-15T19:00
Edition #363
(2010/05/13) Winning by losing (Economics) (MP3) from 2010-05-13T20:01:02
Edition #362
(2010/05/11) The Police State Welcomes You (Immigration) (MP3) from 2010-05-11T23:03:07
Edition #361
(2010/05/09) For the sake of dinosaur squeezings (Oil Spill) (MP3) from 2010-05-09T13:48:22
Edition #360
(2010/05/06) Bulls, Bears, Bailouts and Fraud (Economics) (MP3) from 2010-05-06T15:08:54
Edition #359
(2010/05/01) Forced to lie to serve with honor (Gay Rights) (MP3) from 2010-05-01T08:00
(2010/04/28) Cowardice and callousness (Foreign Policy) (MP3) from 2010-04-28T03:00
Edition #357
(2010/04/25) Yeah, I'm conflating the tea parties with the militia movement (Tea Parties) (MP3) from 2010-04-25T03:02:54
Edition #356
(2010/04/22) Don't believe in any form of sorcery (Religion) (MP3) from 2010-04-22T16:00
Edition #356
(2010/04/20) Toxic assets from Wall St to West Virginia (Economics) (MP3) from 2010-04-20T16:58
Edition #354
(2010/04/17) Backwards politics and the climate (Climate) (MP3) from 2010-04-17T15:51
(2010/04/14) Destroying the media in more ways than one (Media) (MP3) from 2010-04-14T00:01
Edition #352
Destroying the media in more ways than one
Act 1: Some bullshit happening somewhere - The Onion
Act 2: We need less media consolidation - The Progr...
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(2010/04/11) I's on Edjukashun (Education) (MP3) from 2010-04-11T22:01
Edition #351
I's on Edjukashun
Act 1: Earning is fundamental - Colbert Report
Act 2: Child so stupid she sees letters backwards - The Onion
Act 3: A...
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(2010/04/08) March of the loons (Conservatives) (MP3) from 2010-04-08T22:30
Edition #350
March of the loons
Act 1: Health care slime machine - Daily Show
Act 2: Obama may be Anti-Christ, like Hitler - Young Turks
Act 3: Coburn on...
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(2010/04/06) Who didn't see this coming? (Religion) (MP3) from 2010-04-06T22:01
Edition #349
Who didn't see this coming
Act 1: Gay sex scandal involving Vatican - Young Turks
Act 2: Little deaf boys, it's a thing - Le Show
Act 3: The...
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(2010/04/04) The new law of the land Part 2 (Health Care) (MP3) from 2010-04-04T15:29
Edition #348
The new law of the land Part 2
Act 1: Crystal clear debate - Rachel Maddow
Act 2: Tea party protesters hurl slurs at congressmen - Young Turks
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(2010/03/31) The new law of the land Part 1 (Health Care) (MP3) from 2010-03-31T21:26
Edition #347
The new law of the land Part 1
Act 1: Obama's signing speech - Countdown
Act 2: Health in the USA - The Bugle
Act 3: Reason to celebrate - P...
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(2010/03/27) At war at home and abroad (Foreign Policy) (MP3) from 2010-03-27T02:13
Edition #346
At war at home and abro...
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(2010/03/24) Blowing up mountains and our future (Climate Change) (MP3) from 2010-03-24T23:54
Edition #345
Blowing up mountains and our future
Act 1: Lorax Coal - Rachel Maddow
Act 2: Ed Markey on climate bill Part 1 - Ring of Fire
Act 3: Oil spil...
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(2010/03/22) The ultimate last final push (Health Care) (MP3) from 2010-03-22T22:16
Edition #344
The ultimate last final push
Act 1: Define and conquer - Colbert Report
Act 2: Limbaugh's gonna leave - Media Matter Minute
Act 3: Code red ...
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(2010/03/17) Religious cults, the Christian Right and evangelists, evil and not (Religion) (MP3) from 2010-03-17T20:01
Edition #343
Religious cults, the Christian Right and evangelists, evil and not
Act 1: Are religious cults killing democracy - Thom Hartmann
Act 2: Why are some...
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(2010/03/13) Situation generally screwed up (Economics) (MP3) from 2010-03-13T15:01
Edition #342
Situation generally screwed up
Act 1: New financial fight - Rachel Maddow
Act 2: Scott Patterson on The Quants - Daily Show
Act 3: Poli...
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(2010/03/11) Flagrant ignorance (Climate Change) (MP3) from 2010-03-11T15:01
Edition #341
Flagrant ignorance
Act 1: Unusually large snow storm - Daily Show
Act 2: Snowpocalypse vs. climate change - Media Matters
Act 3: GOP doesn't...
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(2010/03/09) The Blair House Project (I didn't make the joke first) (Health Care) (MP3) from 2010-03-09T15:01
Edition #340
The Blair House Project (I didn't make the joke first)
Act 1: Summit's eve - Daily Show
Act 2: Help - Health care special comment - Countdown
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(2010/03/07) Who, what and how we're fighting (GOP) (MP3) from 2010-03-07T15:58
Edition #339
Who, what and how we're fighting
Act 1: CPAC 2010 Rage within the machine - Daily Show
Act 2: CPAC Conference - Rachel Maddow
Act 3: CPAC - ...
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(2010/03/03) They're dickholes, but they're smart (Economics) (MP3) from 2010-03-03T23:37
Edition #338
They're dickholes, but they're smart
Act 1: Rush Limbaugh wants you to get screwed - Young Turks
Act 2: Area CEO doesn't have time for this crap - ...
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(2010/02/27) Terrorism in the age of unreason (Foreign Policy) (MP3) from 2010-02-27T15:01
Edition #337
Terrorism in the age of unreason
Act 1: An inconvenient trial - Daily Show
Act 2: GOP lies on terrorism - Rachel Maddow
Act 3: KSM Trail For...
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(2010/02/24) Don't complain, you could buy an election too if you wanted (Supreme Court) (MP3) from 2010-02-24T23:06
Edition #336
Don't complain, you could buy an election too if you wanted
Act 1: Who owns our politicians - Young Turks
Act 2: Corporate free speech - Colbert Re...
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(2010/02/20) They're here, they're discriminated against, they're used to it (Rights) (MP3) from 2010-02-20T22:30
Edition #335 They're here, they're discriminated against, they're used to it Act 1: First DADT hearing tomorrow - Rachel Maddow Act 2: High court bans same-sex friendships - The Onion Act 3: DA...
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(2010/02/17) No bridges to burn (Healthcare) (MP3) from 2010-02-17T10:43
Edition #334
No bridges to burn
Act 1: The healthcare debate is making me sick - Brian Unger
Act 2: Pass healthcare, DUH - Rachel Maddow
Act 3: 6 facts o...
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(2010/02/14) Soulless, Clueless, Feckless, Brazen (Media) (MP3) from 2010-02-14T19:36
Edition #333
Soulless, Clueless, Feckless, Brazen
Act 1: Limbaugh's Haiti comment - Countdown
Act 2: Limbaugh the hyena - Ring of Fire
Act 3: O'Reil...
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(2010/02/10) The Futility of Leaning Right (Congress) (MP3) from 2010-02-10T00:01
Edition #332
The Futility of Leaning Right
Act 1: Obama crushes house GOP - Young Turks
Act 2: Doris Kearns Goodwin on weak Dems - Daily Show
Act 3: Chan...
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(2010/02/07) Some take on banks while others lie to protect them (Economics) (MP3) from 2010-02-07T19:34
Edition #331
Some take on banks while others lie to protect them
Act 1: Obama takes on bankers - Daily Show
Act 2: Moyers on greed - Moyers' Journal
Act ...
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(2010/02/03) Impending Mending or Coming Crash? (Economics) (MP3) from 2010-02-03T00:01
Edition #330
Impending Mending or Coming Crash
Act 1: Financial inquiry report - Daily Show
Act 2: Another economic disaster coming - Young Turks
Act 3: ...
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(2010/01/31) Welcome President Brown (Special Election) (MP3) from 2010-01-31T20:38
Edition #329
Welcome President Brown
Act 1: Recruiting a party with spine - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
Act 2: Balance of the Senate - It's all politics
Act ...
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(2010/01/27) Corporations is people! (MP3) from 2010-01-27T15:50
Edition #328
Corporations is people!
Act 1: Supreme court blows up politics - It's All Politics
Act 2: Corporate personhood floodgates - Thom Hartmann
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(2010/01/23) Stealth Care is Mass Backwards (Healthcare) (MP3) from 2010-01-23T22:30
Edition #327 Stealth Care is Mass Backwards Act 1: Stelth care reform - Daily Show Act 2: Fixing the wrong healthcare problems - Ring of Fire Act 3: Robert Knutter and Matt Taibbi on health reform...
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(2010/01/20) Morning in America (Repost) (MP3) from 2010-01-20T00:01
Edition #242 Morning in America Act 1: 2004 DNC Keynote Speech (Clip 1) (Clip 2) Act 2: Announcing his candidacy Act 3: Remake this country (Link) Act 4: Signs of Hope & Change (Link) Act 5: Yes ...
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(2010/01/16) Underpants Bomb Fallout, choose your own pun (Foreign Policy) (MP3) from 2010-01-16T15:01
Edition #326 Underpants Bomb Fallout, choose you're own pun Act 1: Yemen Sad Libs - Daily Show Act 2: Kill first harshly interrogate later - Countdown Act 3: Bush terror policies wrongly glorified...
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(2010/01/13) Where religion and ignorance meet (Religion) (MP3) from 2010-01-13T00:01
Edition #325 Where religion and ignorance meet Act 1: Conservapedia working on conservative bible - Colbert Report Act 2: Hume on Woods and religion - Counterspin Act 3: Interview on conservative ...
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(2010/01/09) When you want to cry, laugh (MP3) from 2010-01-09T15:01
Edition #324 When you want to cry, laugh Act 1: Flight Delay - Daily Show Act 2: Predicting economies Part 1 - This American Life Act 3: Smiley-face dollar to boost economy - The Onion Act 4: Pred...
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(2010/01/06) Obama moves Hopelessly forward in Afghanistan (MP3) from 2010-01-06T00:01
Edition #323 Obama moves Hopelessly forward in Afghanistan Act 1: Rushing a decision on Afghanistan - Counterspin Act 2: Obama mimics Bush on Afghanistan - The Progressive Act 3: Bunker-buster ave...
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(2010/01/03) Reason to celebrate? (MP3) from 2010-01-03T21:13
Edition #322 Reason to celebrate Act 1: Episode recap from The DC - Daily Show Act 2: Lincoln conservative on healthcare - Counterspin Act 3: GOP weakens health bill and then bash it - Young Turk...
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(2009/12/30) Take 30,000 troops and call me in the morning (MP3) from 2009-12-30T19:05
Edition #321 Take 30,000 troops and call me in the morning Act 1: Misleading polling on support for war - Counterspin Act 2: I dare you not to notice - Le Show Act 3: Special comment on war escala...
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(2009/12/09) Winter Holiday Extravaganza (MP3) from 2009-12-09T00:01
Edition #320 Winter Holiday Extravaganza Act 1: Atheist summer camp - The Young Turks Act 2: God To Postpone Apocalypse - The Onion Act 3: Adam and Eve Part 1 - This American Life Act 4: Robert Wr...
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(2009/12/05) 1st world party, 3rd world clean up (MP3) from 2009-12-05T15:01
Edition #319 1st world party, 3rd world clean up Act 1: Aziz Ansari on Copenhagen - It's getting ha in here Act 2: Gore urges Obama to take lead on climate - NPR Act 3: Al Gore - Daily Show Act 4:...
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(2009/12/02) Disaster Economics (MP3) from 2009-12-02T21:19
Edition #318 Disaster Economics Act 1: Obama caving in to Wall St again - The Young Turks Act 2: Why the win-win is being ignored Part 1 - This American Life Act 3: Water balloon attacks hurting b...
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(2009/11/25) Rights, gay and otherwise, all obvious (MP3) from 2009-11-25T02:30
Edition #317 Rights, gay and otherwise, all obvious Act 1: From here to neutrality - Daily Show Act 2: Feingold and Franken beat up Patriot Act - Young Turks Act 3: The end of prohibition - Slate ...
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(2009/11/21) Join the war on Fox News today (MP3) from 2009-11-21T15:01
Edition #316 Join the war on Fox News today Act 1: Glenn Beck tragically not a victim of anything - The Onion Act 2: Bush Sr. calls Maddow and Olberman Sick Puppies - The Young Turks Act 3: Dobbs ...
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(2009/11/18) Big bill bothers bought off blowhards (MP3) from 2009-11-18T00:01
Edition #315 Big bill bothers bought off blowhards Act 1: Blow hards bloviate on healthcare - Counterspin Act 2: Bill big, bill bad - Daily Show Act 3: GOP Continues healthcare fear tactics - The ...
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(2009/11/14) Pride, greed, vanity and gluttony (MP3) from 2009-11-14T16:30
Edition #314 Pride, greed, vanity and gluttony Act 1: Really Goldman Sachs?! - SNL Act 2: Spitzer on the financial bailout - Rachel Maddow Act 3: MSNBC Ratigan bashes corporate communists - The Yo...
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(2009/11/11) Recruiting disciples through fear and coupons (MP3) from 2009-11-11T00:01
Edition #313 Recruiting disciples through fear and coupons Act 1: Catholic lifeboat - Colbert Report Act 2: Hell House - This American Life Act 3: God checks in to the Mayo Clinic - The Onion Act ...
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(2009/11/07) Ancient sunlight vs fresh sunlight (MP3) from 2009-11-07T15:00
Edition #312 Ancient sunlight vs fresh sunlight Act 1: The true cost of fossil fuels - Thom Hartmann Act 2: Inhofe headed to Copenhagen - Ring of Fire Act 3: Colin Beavan is No Impact Man - Colbe...
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(2009/11/04) Unexpected leadership, totally expected treachery (MP3) from 2009-11-04T00:01
Edition #311 Unexpected leadership, totally expected treachery Act 1: Nancy Peloci, you'll burn in hell for this - Wait Wait don't tell me Act 2: Rebranding health reform - Countdown Act 3: Franke...
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(2009/10/31) The war on Fox (MP3) from 2009-10-31T00:01
Edition #310 The war on Fox Act 1: The GOP colicky babies - Ring of Fire Act 2: CNN leaves it there - Daily Show Act 3: Fox News is not like the others - Rachel Maddow Act 4: How Murdoch brought ...
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(2009/10/28) Derailing unprecedented health reform would be unprecedented (MP3) from 2009-10-28T00:01
Edition #309 Derailing unprecedented health reform would be unprecedented Act 1: Kid is denied healthcare for being too skinny - The Young Turks Act 2: Max Baucus and Senate health reform - Bill M...
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(2009/10/24) Still legally treated as second-class citizens (MP3) from 2009-10-24T03:01
Edition #308 Still legally treated as second-class citizens Act 1: California Marriage Protection Act PSA 1 Act 2: When the time is right - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Jim Fouratt on gay rights - Colbert...
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(2009/10/21) Snowe in October and other healthcare nonsense (MP3) from 2009-10-21T16:09
Edition #307 Snowe in October and other healthcare nonsense Act 1: Will it Snowe or wont it? - Wait wait don't tell me! Act 2: Bogus report commissioned by the health lobby - Countdown Act 3: The ...
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(2009/10/17) Democracy for sale (MP3) from 2009-10-17T20:46
Edition #306 Decomcracy for sale Act 1: Supreme Court on the verge of humanizing corporations - Colbert Report Act 2: Looking forward on changing our economics - Bill Maher Act 3: Jeffrey Toobin o...
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(2009/10/14) Corporate energy fighting for and against the climate (MP3) from 2009-10-14T00:01
Corporate energy fighting for and against the climate Edition #305 Act 1: James Hansen is arrested during MTR protest - Ring of Fire Act 2: Cloudy with a chance of heat balls - Daily Show Act 3: T...
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(2009/10/10) Yeah, when it fits, we call you racist (MP3) from 2009-10-10T19:01
Edition #304 Yeah, when it fits, we call you racist Act 1: The conservative media's attack cycle - On the Media Act 2: Comparing corruption of ACORN to Blackwater - Rachel Maddow Act 3: The Word: ...
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(2009/10/07) As the chips begin to fall (MP3) from 2009-10-07T00:01
Edition #303 As the chips begin to fall Act 1: Healthcare polling - Counterspin Act 2: GOP are a bunch of neanderthals - The Young Turks Act 3: Wendel Potter on healthcare - Rachel Maddow Act 4: C...
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(2009/10/03) Moral Kombat (MP3) from 2009-10-03T16:52
Edition #302 Moral Kombat Act 1: Naked hot tub religious mentoring - Le Show Act 2: God smites area man for disturbing Him - The Onion Act 3: How many women get hit on by their pastors? - The Youn...
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(2009/09/30) Compromise catastrophe soaked in corporate cash (MP3) from 2009-09-30T00:01
Edition #301 Compromise catastrophe soaked in corporate cash Act 1: Baucus stands alone - Wait wait don't tell me! Act 2: Does the GOP care more about property than people? - The Young Turks Act 3...
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(2009/09/26) Looks back, layoffs, tax cuts and stock drops (MP3) from 2009-09-26T16:01
Edition #300 Looks back, layoffs, tax cuts and stock drops Act 1: Laying off the robots - Wait wait don't tell me! Act 2: The Lehman shock - Slate.com Act 3: Champagne drained from corporate pool ...
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(2009/09/23) Tom Ridge's 'I-didn't-really-mean-it' tour (MP3) from 2009-09-23T00:01
Edition #299 Tom Ridge's 'I-didn't-really-mean-it' tour Act 1: Torture reports show Dick Cheney was wrong - The Young Turks Act 2: UK mad at Cheney for preempting their police work - Rachel Maddow...
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(2009/09/19) In the wake of Obama's healthcare speech (MP3) from 2009-09-19T16:20
Edition #298 In the wake of Obama's healthcare speech Act 1: Details still to be ironed out - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Act 2: Bernie Sanders on stopping the filibuster - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Pasto...
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(2009/09/16) Cheney's tortured facts and logic (MP3) from 2009-09-16T04:01
Edition #297 Cheney's tortured facts and logic Act 1: Blackwater's corrupt crusade - Countdown Act 2: Cheney's interview prop with FOX - Le Show Act 3: Planet Cheney - Rachel Maddow Act 4: Report...
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(2009/09/12) Distasteful discord leaks onto the floor of the house (MP3) from 2009-09-12T19:12
Edition #296 Distasteful discord leaks onto the floor of the house Act 1: Sen. Coburn to weeping woman: Ask you're neighbor - The Young Turks Act 2: Appease the wrong people... - Countdown Act 3: ...
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(2009/09/09) Playing games with the climate and cheating (MP3) from 2009-09-09T04:01
Edition #295 Playing games with the climate and cheating Act 1: Coal industry mail fraud - Rachel Maddow Act 2: 'Astroturf' campaign fights climate bill - NPR Act 3: A look at post-Katrina New Orl...
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(2009/09/05) The very long battle continues, now without our General (MP3) from 2009-09-06T00:01
Edition #294 The very long battle continues, now without our General Act 1: Betsy McCaughey pounded by Jon Stewart - Rachel Maddow Act 2: The history of pushing for universal healthcare - On the M...
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(2009/09/02) For-profit journalism at some of it's worst (MP3) from 2009-09-03T03:33
Edition #293 For-profit journalism at some of it's worst Act 1: So you think you can douche - Daily Show Act 2: Fact-imparted miniverse on healthcare - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Poll bearers: cable new...
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(2009/08/29) The opponents of healthcare are scarier than death panels (MP3) from 2009-08-29T19:01
Edition #292 The opponents of healthcare are scarier than death panels Act 1: These guys are not on the level - The Young Turks Act 2: Sick for profit - Brave New Films Act 3: Bernie Sanders on si...
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(2009/08/26) Rock-ribbed, lily-livered conservatives (MP3) from 2009-08-26T04:01
Edition #291 Rock-ribbed, lily-livered conservatives Act 1: Appealing to right-wing fear - Ring of Fire Act 2: Class of '43 - Daily Show Act 3: Bob Inglis - What are they afraid of? - The Young Tu...
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(2009/08/22) The danger is not theoretical (MP3) from 2009-08-22T19:01
Edition #290 The danger is not theoretical Act 1: Give me liberty and give me death - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Act 2: The ghost of the klan returns to stoke fear of change - The Young Turks Act ...
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(2009/08/19) The cult of religiosity on C Street in Washington (MP3) from 2009-08-19T04:01
Edition #289 The cult of religiosity on C Street in Washington Act 1: Gay demon on the loose - Colbert Report Act 2: Rumsfeld uses religious quotes for war - Countdown Act 3: A look inside of "C S...
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(2009/08/15) It's 7pm, do you know where your grandparents are? (MP3) from 2009-08-15T20:27
Edition #288 It's 7pm, do you know where you grandparents are? Act 1: Healthrasier - Daily Show Act 2: GOP on the wrong side of history - Bill Maher Act 3: Healthcare Pap Attack - Ring of Fire Ac...
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(2009/08/12) Cap'n Trade to the rescue! (If only!) (MP3) from 2009-08-12T04:01
Edition #287 Cap'n Trade to the rescue! (If only!) Act 1: News of the warm - Le Show Act 2: Scientists debate geoengieneering - NPR Act 3: Steven Chu - Daily Show Act 4: About climate change: Neve...
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(2009/08/08) You know, Napoleon wasn't exactly French either (MP3) from 2009-08-08T19:01
Edition #286 You know, Napoleon wasn't exactly French either Act 1: Obama's Waterloo - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Act 2: Birthers, deathers and healthcare - Rachel Maddow Act 3: News and notes on he...
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(2009/08/05) Illegal programs past and future (MP3) from 2009-08-05T04:01
Edition #285 Illegal programs past and future Act 1: Only in New York! - Daily Show Act 2: Discussing the Cheney-ordered CIA program - Ring of Fire Act 3: Peter Phillips on ignoring autopsy report...
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(2009/08/01) Some fundamentals going wrong (MP3) from 2009-08-01T19:01
Edition #284 Some fundamentals going wrong Act 1: Cheney Predactied - Daily Show Act 2: John Hodgman on Obama vs Bush Act 3: Obama continues secrecy around Cheney - Countdown Act 4: Secret CIA/Che...
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(2009/07/29) Your money or your health - Sounds like a robbery (MP3) from 2009-07-30T01:35
Edition #283 Your money or your health - Sounds like a robbery Act 1: Quizzed on healthcare - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Act 2: Bernie Sanders on the Dems and healthcare - Countdown Act 3: Glenn Bec...
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(2009/07/25) Too racist to judge, not racist enough to be a Republican (MP3) from 2009-07-25T19:01
Edition #282 Too racist to judge, not racist enough to be a Republican Act 1: Confirmation in 60 seconds - Slate.com Act 2: Reviewing the confirmation hearings - On the Media Act 3: Live coverage ...
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(2009/07/22) Institutional bias and general stupidity (MP3) from 2009-07-22T04:01
Edition #281 Institutional bias and general stupidity Act 1: Fox & Friends' Lingerie Football romp - Daily Show Act 2: 50/50, the MSM mantra - The Young Turks Act 3: The Stephen Colbert study anal...
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(2009/07/18) Reaping the results of corruption and greed (MP3) from 2009-07-18T19:01
Edition #280 Reaping the results of corruption and greed Act 1: F#@ked or Fixed - Economic Crisis - Daily Show Act 2: Regulating AIG - Who fell asleep on the job? - NPR Act 3: Phantom Wealth - Tho...
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(2009/07/15) Anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering (MP3) from 2009-07-15T04:01
Edition #279 Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Act 1: The rise of right-wing extremism - Ring of Fire Act 2: Fox News helped kill George Tiller - Countdown Act 3: Right-wing hate speec...
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(2009/07/11) Exorcising an electrical impulse (MP3) from 2009-07-11T19:02
Edition #278 Exorcising an electrical impulse Act 1: Religious jihad on George Tiller - Countdown Act 2: Threatdown on Christianity - Colbert Report Act 3: Are spiritual encounters all in your hea...
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(2009/07/08) The war of words over torture (MP3) from 2009-07-08T04:01
Edition #277 The war of words over torture Act 1: Jesse Ventura on The View - The Young Turks Act 2: Dick Cheney blaming 9/11 on Dick Clark - Daily Show Act 3: Jesse Ventura on torture with Hannit...
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(2009/07/04) Mighty struggle for reasonable health care (MP3) from 2009-07-04T19:01
Edition #276 Mighty struggle for reasonable health care Act 1: Obama pushing for the public option - The Young Turks Act 2: Discussion on why we need health care reform - Bill Maher Act 3: Polls s...
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(2009/07/01) The Iranian "Election" (MP3) from 2009-07-01T20:00
Edition #275 The Iranian "Election" Act 1: Today in Iran: an election that can't possibly be right - Daily Show Act 2: Introduction to the dispute - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Journalism in Iran Act 4: ...
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(2009/06/28) Supreme Court debate starts nasty, gets worse (MP3) from 2009-06-28T21:51
Edition #274 Supreme Court debate starts nasty, gets worse Act 1: P.R. Move - Daily Show Act 2: The Politics industry of the Supreme Court - On the Media Act 3: Supreme Court Executioner to retire...
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(2009/06/24) Some steps on the road to progress (kind of) (MP3) from 2009-06-24T04:01
Edition #273 Some steps on the road to progress (kind of) Act 1: Lou Dobbs on climate change - Countspin Act 2: News of the warm - Le Show Act 3: Interview with Glenn Hurowitz Part 1 - Ring of Fir...
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(2009/06/20) In sickness and health and other rights denied (MP3) from 2009-06-20T19:01
Edition #272 In sickness and health and other rights denied Act 1: Gaywatch in Maine and Washington, DC - The Daily Show Act 2: All aren't happy with health insureance for all - NPR Act 3: Mother ...
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(2009/06/17) The sometimes blinding stupidity of the GOP (MP3) from 2009-06-17T04:01
Edition #271 The sometimes blinding stupidity of the GOP Act 1: GOP talking about secession again - The Young Turks Act 2: Meghan McCain on the GOP - Colbert Report Act 3: The "Democrat Socialist ...
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(2009/06/13) The torture debate continues and then ends (MP3) from 2009-06-13T19:01
Edition #270 The torture debate continues and then ends Act 1: Torture photos vs. Don't ask don't tell - The Daily Show Act 2: GOP going full blast fear - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Cheney's claims refu...
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(2009/06/10) Denials debunked and truth spoken to power (MP3) from 2009-06-10T04:01
Edition #269 Denials debunked and truth spoken to power Act 1: PowerShift 09 Day 2 - PowerShift09.org Act 2: Obama from the climate change summit - This American Life Act 3: News of the warm Part...
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(2009/06/06) A showdown between pure evil and mostly not evil (MP3) from 2009-06-06T04:01
Edition #268 A showdown between pure evil and mostly not evil Act 1: Dueling ideologies: Obama v Cheney - The Daily Show Act 2: Going back on campaign promises - Le Show Act 3: Liz Cheney talks to...
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(2009/06/03) Why and how banks are going down (MP3) from 2009-06-03T15:31
Edition #267 Why and how banks are going down Act 1: American's having sex at home - The Onion Act 2: Credit card holders bill of rights - Colbert Report Act 3: How to take down a bank Part 1 - T...
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(2009/05/30) The torture talk continues and continues some more (MP3) from 2009-05-30T04:00
Edition #266 Torture talk continues... and continues Act 1: GOP on not closing Gitmo - The Young Turks Act 2: Liz Cheney on torture - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Cheney throws Bush under the bus - The Da...
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(2009/05/23) The Religious Right Is Down But They Still Love Torture (MP3) from 2009-05-23T04:01
Edition # 265 The Religious RIght Is Down But They Still Love Torture Act 1: Bart Ehrman interview - Colbert Report Act 2: Dobson is down and out - The Young Turks Act 3: News from religiosity - C...
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(2009/05/16) Reacting to the Torture Expose (MP3) from 2009-05-16T04:01
Edition #264 Reacting to the Torture Expose Act 1: An Iraq War Retrospective - Rachel Maddow Act 2: O'Reilly claims torture is popular - CounterSpin Act 3: Destroying the memo - Rachel Maddow Act ...
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(2009/05/09) Headed for the cliff with pizza in hand (MP3) from 2009-05-09T19:35
Edition #263 Headed for the cliff with pizza in hand Act 1: Conservatives don't get Colbert - Countdown Act 2: Fox News deep in projection - The Young TUrks Act 3: Gore Vidal on the current Republ...
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(2009/05/02) The Big Torture Show (MP3) from 2009-05-02T06:14
Edition # 262 The Big Torture Show Act 1: Bowing to the King - Colbert Report Act 2: Disambiguating the reports - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Declassifying torture memos - On the Media Act 4: Introductio...
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(2009/04/25) Love is in the air, let's shoot it down (MP3) from 2009-04-25T04:01
Edition # 261 Love is in the air, let's shoot it down Act 1: Same-sex marriage in Iowa - Rachel Maddow Act 2: Gay Marriage in Vermont - The Daily Show Act 3: Newspapers influencing marriage debate...
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(2009/04/20) Worked up, angry and totally misdirected (MP3) from 2009-04-21T02:53
Edition # 260 Worked up, angry and totally misdirected Act 1: Cutting the defense budget - The Daily Show Act 2: Republican fake outrage - The Young Turks Act 3: Cutting the defense budget - The C...
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(2009/04/12) A discussion of the state of our culture (with swears) (MP3) from 2009-04-13T03:57
Edition #259 A discussion of the state of our culture (with swears)Act 1: Fox viewers to be institusionalized? - Ring of Fire Act 2: Hannity hosts a discussion on how best to overthrow the US Gov. ...
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(2009/04/05) RIghts at home and abroad, human and otherwise (MP3) from 2009-04-06T03:14
Edition # 258 RIghts at home and abroad, human and otherwise Act 1: Viagra to the Taliban - Wait Wait Act 2: Story of a wrongful death Part 1 - Democracy NOW! Act 3: On the Isreal/Palistine questi...
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(2009/03/29) Money, power, politics and jokes (MP3) from 2009-03-29T06:09
Edition # 257 Money, power, politics and jokes Act 1: Controversy in Obama's budget - CounterSpin Act 2: NY/DC circle of power - The Young Turks Act 3: Class war in the budget - CounterSpin Act 4:...
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(2009/03/14) Crumbling Financial Fundamentals (MP3) from 2009-03-15T03:33
Act 1: The Madoff Decade - The Young Turks Act 2: Congress establishes new department - The Onion Act 3: They're just not that into you - Rachel Maddow Act 4: The new guy at the commerce department...
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(2009/03/09) Green Jobs and the Youth Movement (MP3) from 2009-03-09T12:41
Act 1: Green jobs with Van Jones Part 1 - Meet the Bloggers Act 2: Eco-friendly Hummers - The Onion Act 3: Green jobs with Van Jones Part 2 - Meet the Bloggers Act 4: Remaking an edge city - NPR Ac...
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(2009/02/15) Missing: Stable economic system, if found please contact owner (MP3) from 2009-02-15T22:16
Edition # 254 Missing: Stable economic system, if found please contact owner Act 1: Executive pay out of control - The Young Turks Act 2: Unemployed without benefits - NPR Act 3: Keynsian Economic...
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(2009/02/10) The Laws of the Universe (MP3) from 2009-02-10T15:51
Edition # 253 The Laws of the Universe Act 1: Bill Maher on The View - The Young Turks Act 2: Faith-based TV repair - The Onion Act 3: Speech excerpt - Alan Watts Act 4: Hooligan transforms into a...
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(2009/02/06) Notes on the Barackalipse (MP3) from 2009-02-06T14:24
Edition #252 Notes on the Barackalipse Act 1: Obama from his first climate conference - This American Life Act 2: Mission Accomplished - Slate.com Act 3: After 10 years of Bush - Wait Wait Act 4: ...
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(2009/01/31) From various points of view (MP3) from 2009-01-31T22:24
Edition #251 From various points of view Act 1: The Michael Savage Story Part 1 - The Young Turks Act 2: ACLU Defends Neo-Nazis - The Onion Act 3: The Michael Savage Story Part 2 - The Young Turks...
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(2009/01/20) The End of an Error (MP3) from 2009-01-20T05:01
Edition #250 The End of an Error Act 1: The real history of the Bush administration - Countdown Act 2: Bush working on his legacy - Ring of Fire Act 3: Cheney's confession - The Young Turks Act 4:...
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(2009/01/17) Building out of a hole (MP3) from 2009-01-18T03:59
Edition #249 Building out of a hole Act 1: The green collar economy - Democaracy NOW! Act 2: The Blue Green Alliance Part 1 - Ring of Fire Act 3: Alternative fuel SUV - The Onion Act 4: The Blue G...
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(2009/01/15) Lagging economy, lacking new ideas (MP3) from 2009-01-15T13:59
Act 1: Destructive myth about Big 3 autoworkers - CounterSpin Act 2: Union activist on the Big 3 Part 1 - Democracy NOW! Act 3: Reclaiming Detroit - NPR Act 4: Union activist on the Big 3 Part 2 - ...
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(2009/01/09) Living Goddess, Fired Reverend (MP3) from 2009-01-09T17:08
Act 1: On religion and Rick Warren - Maron v. Seder Act 2: Part 1 Interview with Richard Cizik - Fresh Air Act 3: Jesus returns for holiday shopping pep-talk - The Onion Act 4: Part 2 Interview wit...
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(2009/01/05) (In)Tolerance (MP3) from 2009-01-05T23:53
Act 1: Paul Reikoff on Rick Warren - Rachel Maddow Act 2: Claim of Privilage - Thom Hartmann Act 3: The Mormons funding Prop 8 - The Young Turks Act 4: Alabama super-illegalizes gay marriage - The ...
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(2008/12/14) Bringing aid to the weakest among us (MP3) from 2008-12-15T02:00
Act 1: Holes in our socks - Slate Act 2: Big finance and the Big 3 - Maron v Seder Act 3: Ruining our children's future - Ring of Fire Act 4: Economic crisis traced to bounced check - The Onion Act...
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(2008/12/03) Where we are and where we should go (MP3) from 2008-12-04T04:42
Act 1: Friedman on "Drill baby, drill" - NPR Act 2: We Can Solve It ad not shown on ABC - CounterSpin Act 3: Friedman on taxing what we don't want - NPR Act 4: Life jackets issued to all Americans ...
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(2008/11/25) If you cut the mustard too sharp, you're going to get called a racist (MP3) from 2008-11-25T18:00
Act 1: Election night interview - 60 Minutes Act 2: Palin and claims of sexism - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Obama to wipe out llamas - The Onion Act 4: Social promotion - The Young Tuks Act 5: The media ...
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(2008/11/16) Morning in America (MP3) from 2008-11-16T17:01
Act 1: 2004 DNC Keynote Speech Act 2: Announcing his candidacy Act 3: Remake this country Act 4: Signs of Hope & Change Act 5: Yes We Can - During the primaries after a loss in New Hampshire Act 6:...
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(2008/11/02) It's up to you (MP3) from 2008-11-03T02:08
Act 1: Savage on the tolerance of voters - The Young Turks Act 2: A conversasion on race - NPR Act 3: Glimer of hope - The Onion Act 4: Why going negative doesn't work - NPR Act 5: Palin on the rol...
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(2008/10/29) Secular values, American elections (MP3) from 2008-10-29T23:00
Act 1: Jesus answers half the prayers at a roulette table - The Onion Act 2: White, Protestant Nation Part 1 - Ring of Fire Act 3: Secular values and presidential elections - Point of Inquiry Act 4...
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(2008/10/26) We are the guardians of freedom (MP3) from 2008-10-26T18:00
Act 1: On fear - This Brave Nation Act 2: Securing elections Part 1 - Thom Hartmann Act 3: McCain's military record - Ring of Fire Act 4: Securing elections Part 2 - Thom Hartmann Act 5: Warrantles...
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(2008/10/22) Dirty, cruel, dangerous and stupid (MP3) from 2008-10-23T01:00
Act 1: Dirtiest Campaign - The Young Turks Act 2: How the economy hurts the election - Thom Hartmann Act 3: Danger of Sarah Palin - Ring of Fire Act 4: GOP convention and the media - On the Media A...
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(2008/10/19) The war on the environment (MP3) from 2008-10-20T01:42
Act 1: IPCC Report released Act 2: Wind reserves to run out - The Onion Act 3: War on the environment Part 1 - Ring of Fire Act 4: Letterman on the climate - David Letterman Act 5: War on the envir...
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(2008/10/15) Examining the economic storm (MP3) from 2008-10-16T03:27
Act 1: Examining economics - Thom Hartmann Act 2: Bailout sabotage - The Young Turks Act 3: The congressional car - The Onion Act 4: Selling off the country to pay the bills - Thom Hartmann Act 5: ...
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(2008/10/11) Preaching politics from the pulpit and other bad ideas (MP3) from 2008-10-11T16:01
Act 1: Summoning the Devil - This American Life Act 2: Pastors preaching politics Part 1 - On the Media Act 3: Hammer-induced thumb injury - The Onion Act 4: Pastors preaching politics Part 2 - On ...
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(2008/10/08) Moose in the headlights (MP3) from 2008-10-08T04:01
Act 1: Palin's qualifications - Abraham Lincold Logs Podcast Act 2: Palin on McCain's record of regulation - CBS Interview Act 3: Cafferty on Palin - The Young Turks Act 4: Palin on her reading hab...
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(2008/10/04) Treacherous friends with low polling (MP3) from 2008-10-04T04:01
Act 1: President Cheney - Wait wait, don't tell me Act 2: Henry Rollings: Watching Bush - Ring of Fire Act 3: Al Gore on Bush and 9/11 - The Young Turks Act 4: Bush escapes from weekly bath - The O...
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(2008/10/01) Taking comfort from history (MP3) from 2008-10-01T12:39
Act 1: 11th Hour Trailer Act 2: Moving to the Suburbs - NPR Act 3: Solar-powered electric chair - The Onion Act 4: Moving to the city - NPR Act 5: Nuclear vs. climate change - Democracy NOW! Act 6:...
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(2008/09/26) The crazy old man and his crazy young lady friend (MP3) from 2008-09-27T01:45
Act 1: GOP and Military speak out on McCain - YouTube Act 2: Mysterious McCain zipper - The Onion Act 3: You can't challenge McCain Act 4: Offshore drilling - The Daily Show Act 5: Media insists Mc...
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(2008/09/24) Let's redefine from 2008-09-24T04:01
Act 1: Republican enjoys paying for healthcare - The Onion Act 2: McCain on the economy - YouTube Act 3: Bill Shear on Phil Graham - The Young Turks Act 4: A cure for real estate Amnesia - The Unge...
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(2008/09/20) Human Rights for All (MP3) from 2008-09-20T04:01
Act 1: Hate crimes legislation - The Young Turks Act 2: Pete Seeger on The Peekskill Riots - This Brave Nation Act 3: Isreal's water shortage - CounterSpin Act 4: Affirmitive Action and the Supreme...
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(2008/09/17) How about a nice big cup of shut the fuck up? (MP3) from 2008-09-17T04:01
Act 1: Hannity gets a new contract - The Young Turks Act 2: Tell me a story Part 1 - Radio Lab Act 3: 20th Limbaughversary - On the Media Act 4: Tell me a story Part 2 - Radio Lab Act 5: Glenn Beck...
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(2008/09/13) All in The Family (MP3) from 2008-09-13T07:05
Act 1: Hicks teach evolution - The Young Turks Act 2: Religion in politics - On the Media Act 3: Child injured mimicing crucifiction - The Onion Act 4: Waiting for Joe - This American Life Act 5: "...
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(2008/09/10) Shifting water and winds (MP3) from 2008-09-10T11:18
Act 1: The emerging German energy system - Thom Hartmann Act 2: Water scarcity around the world - The Young Turks Act 3: T Boone Pickens latches on to wind - Thom Hartmann Act 4: Water as a commodi...
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(2008/08/31) ..."Oh, he's drunk. How would he know where we're going?" (MP3) from 2008-08-31T20:58
Act 1: Torture manual from China used by US - The Young Turks Act 2: Goodbye Houston - Democracy NOW! Act 3: Impeachment of George W. Bush - CounterSpin Act 4: A look at Blackwater - Ring of Fire R...
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(2008/08/20) Preparing to live behind levees (MP3) from 2008-08-20T18:46
Act 1: Blackwater to defend against Climate Change - The Onion Act 2: Expanding oil drilling and antarctic ice melt - Ring of Fire Act 3: Green for all - Earthbeat radio Act 4: Al Gore on mountain ...
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(2008/08/12) Biased? Lazy? Indoctrinated? Fundamentally Broken! (MP3) from 2008-08-13T02:11
Act 1: Bush revision in the media - CounterSpin Act 2: The mass media is broken Part 1 - The Young Turks Act 3: Matt Drudge rules our world - CounterSpin Act 4: The mass media is broken Part 2 - Th...
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(2008/07/31) The Politics of Hope (MP3) from 2008-07-31T19:13
Act 1: Al Gore's green energy challenge Act 2: Obama's speech in Berlin to the world Act 3: Al Gore's green energy challenge Act 4: Obama's speech in Berlin to the world Act 5: Al Gore's green ener...
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(2008/06/19) Deny global warming then light up a smoke (MP3) from 2008-06-19T22:15
Act 1: Coal Train Lockdown - The Guardian Act 2: Exploring for oil in the arctic - NPR Act 3: Tim Flannery Interview Act 4: Global Warming denyers as wrong as ever - CounterSpin Act 5: Global warmi...
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(2008/06/08) The Dream in Bush's America (MP3) from 2008-06-09T00:01
Act 1: The Young Turks – 22 yr old military contractor Act 2: Ring of Fire – Pap Attack: Profits over safety in health care Act 3: The Young Turks – Bad News For the Budget Act 4: TAL – Immigration...
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(2008/05/26) Of course we're right and they're wrong! (MP3) from 2008-05-26T22:02
Act 1: The argument for tyranny - The Young Turks Act 2: Pop psych on the GOP - Ring of Fire Act 3: How good people turn evil Part 1 - BBC Act 4: A real liberal - The Young Turks Act 5: How good pe...
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(2008/05/07) Slime and Punishment (MP3) from 2008-05-08T03:37
Act 1: The Young Turks - Karl Rove / Don Siegelman
Act 2: Hardball W/ Chris Matthews - Announcement: Siegelman Released
Act 3: Ring of Fire - Don Siegelman Interview
Act 4: Sam Seder - ...
(2008/04/28) Let Them Eat War (MP3) from 2008-04-28T07:58
Act 1: Ring of Fire - Iraq Failures
Act 2: Patraeus Protests
Act 3: Daily Show - "Iraq me, Dave Petraeus"
Act 4: The Young Turks - How to Confront Petraeus
Act 5: Sam Seder - Ambass...
(2008/04/01) Gotta Know When to Fold 'Em (MP3) from 2008-04-01T11:04
Act 1: Seder on Sundays - Death of the Southern Strategy
Act 2: Rachel Maddow - Dems Take Hastart Seat
Act 3: Randi Rhodes - Privately Sponsored Do-Over Elections
Act 4: Thom Hartmann -...
(2008/03/23) Fool Me 935 Times (MP3) from 2008-03-24T03:49
Act 1: Rachel Maddow - Bush Lies Compiled
Act 2: The Young Turks - Talking to Our Enemies
Act 3: The Young Turks - Bush is a Sick Thug
Act 4: Rachel Maddow - Cheney Brings Peace Bush Br...
(2008/03/05) A Closer Look at the Frontrunners (MP3) from 2008-03-06T08:45
Act 1: Keith Olbermann - Hillary vs Obama Debate Recap
Act 2: Bill Maher - Hillary McCain jokes
Act 3: Davis Fleetwood - Superdelegates
Act 4: Meet the Press - Nader Jumps in (again)
(2008/02/26) Not Falling For it Anymore (MP3) from 2008-02-26T17:58
Act 1: The Young Turks - Reid & Telcom Immunity
Act 2: Sam Seder - Telcom Immunity
Act 3: Realtime With Bill Maher - Weighing the Threat
Act 4: BBC - The Future of Spying
Act 5: Ol...
(2008/02/16) Super Tuesday and Beyond (MP3) from 2008-02-16T18:46
Act 1: MSNBC - Super Tuesday Results Come In
Act 2: The Young Turks - Obama Wins!
Act 3: TPMtv - Super Delegates
Act 4: Randi Rhodes - An Extraordinary Moment In History
Act 5: Rach...
(2008/01/31) Round 3: South Carolina (MP3) from 2008-01-31T10:17
Act 1: CNN - Obama Wins South Carolina
Act 2: Obama - Victory Speech
Act 3: Sam Seder - Obama Victory
Act 4: Democracy Now - Obama Victory
Act 5: The UpTake - The Politics of Interj...
(2008/01/15) Round 2: New Hampshire (MP3) from 2008-01-15T10:29
Act 1: The Young Turks - Pre Election Polls
Act 2: MSNBC - Calls it for Hillary
Act 3: The Young Turks - Three Words
Act 4: Rachel Maddow - The REAL Upset of NH
Act 5: TPMtv - Why W...
(2008/01/05) Round 1: Iowa (MP3) from 2008-01-05T19:45
Act 1: The Young Turks - Iowa Live Coverage Begins
Act 2: The Young Turks - Iowa Wrap Up
Act 3: Obama - Victory Speech
Act 4: Rachel Maddow - Economic Populism
Act 5: The Young Turk...
(2007/12/29) Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (MP3) from 2007-12-29T07:39
Act 1: Rachel Maddow - Let's Talk About Ron Paul
Act 2: Warren26peace - Let's Talk About Ron Paul
Act 3: Bill Moyers - FCC's New Attempt to Increase Media Consolidation
Act 4: Ted Kenne...
(2007/12/10) Know Your Enemy (MP3) from 2007-12-10T11:17
Act 1: Hunter - Let's Build a Wall
Act 2: Hunter Huckabee Romney McCain - Don't Ask Don't Tell
Act 3: Hunter - Gun Love
Act 4: Giuliani McCain Hunter - Repairing Our Image
Act 5: Ro...
(2007/11/20) Get A BRAIN! MORANS (MP3) from 2007-11-20T10:17
Act 1: George Carlin - Pro Life is Anti-Woman
Act 2: Lee Camp - Delicious Disaster
Act 3: The Young Turks - Oral Robberts Sexy Scandal
Act 4: Bill Hicks - Dinosaurs
Act 5: David Cro...
(2007/11/12) The Beginning of the End for Cheney (MP3) from 2007-11-13T02:08
Act 1: Mike Malloy - A Damning Indictment
Act 2: Dennis Kucinich - Who's Going to Defend the Constitution?
Act 3: Randi Rhodes - OMG! WTF? (part1)
Act 4: Randi Rhodes - OMG! WTF? (part2...
(2007/11/06) When the President Does it That Means That it is Not Illegal (MP3) from 2007-11-06T11:13
Act 1: Sam Seder - FISA Restore Act (Part 1)
Act 2: Randi Rhodes - FISA Restore Act
Act 3: Bill Moyers - Presidential Powers
Act 4: Sam Seder - FISA Restore Act (Part 2)
Act 5: Jon ...
(2007/10/22) Slowly Going From Nixon to Mr. Burns (MP3) from 2007-10-22T09:05
Act 1: The Daily Show- Banned Aid–Bush vetoes SCHIP
Act 2: Mike Malloy - Republicans Hate Children
Act 3: Rachel Maddow - Eight states sue Bush over SCHIP
Act 4: Randi Rhodes - Bush Dec...
(2007/10/15) Onward Christian Soldiers! (MP3) from 2007-10-15T07:27
Act 1: Bill Moyers Journal- Contract Fraud in Iraq worth Billions
Act 2: Rachel Maddow - Peter Singer part 1
Act 3: Randi Rhodes - Jeremy Scahill part 1
Act 4: Randi Rhodes - Jeremy Sca...
(2007/10/08) The Disconnect Fixed With Ending (MP3) from 2007-10-09T19:41
Act 1: Rachel Maddow - How to stop the war
Act 2: The Young Turks - O'Reilly Discovers Black Culture
Act 3: Liberal Oasis Radio - Out by 2013
Act 4: Mike Malloy - Ron Paul? No Thanks.<...
(2007/10/08) The Disconnect (MP3) from 2007-10-08T07:09
Act 1: Rachel Maddow - How to stop the war
Act 2: The Young Turks - O'Reilly Discovers Black Culture
Act 3: Liberal Oasis Radio - Out by 2013
Act 4: Mike Malloy - Ron Paul? No Thanks.<...
(2007/10/02) Liebermans Iranian Wargasm (MP3) from 2007-10-02T10:08
Act 1: TPMtv - Lieberman's Bomb Iran Bill part 1
Act 2: Hartmann - Paul Craig Robberts part 1
Act 3: The Young Turks - The War Drums Begin
Act 4: TPMtv - Lieberman's Bomb Iran Bill part...
(2007/09/21) Petraeus Betrays Us (MP3) from 2007-09-21T09:46
Act 1: National Security Network - Crisis in Confidence
Act 2: Randi Rhodes - Fudging the Facts
Act 3: Malloy - Petraeus Testifies part1
Act 4: TYT - Petraeus Testifies part1
Act 5:...
(2007/09/12) The Rats Jump Ship (MP3) from 2007-09-12T21:00
Act 1: Down Goes Karl Rove - The Young Turks
Act 2: Rove Calls it Quits - Seder on Sundays
Act 3: Rove Legacy - Bill Moyers
Act 4: Gonzo Visits Ashcroft - Randi Rhodes
Act 5: Gonzo ...
(2007/09/05) When Someone Shows You Who They Are, Believe Them (MP3) from 2007-09-05T12:01
Act 1: $20 Billion Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia - Rachel Maddow
Act 2: On The Table - On The Media
Act 3: Nader On Corporate Power Fascism - Democracy Now!
Act 4: New Details on Tillman Co...
(2007/08/29) Hope in the Darkness (MP3) from 2007-08-29T04:00
Act 1: Utter Failure - LeShow Act 2; Swiftboating the Planet - New York Times Act 3: Storm Cloud Over New Orleans - Mother Jones Act 4: Global Warming Research - LeShow Act 5: A note of hope in New...
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(2007/08/23) Talking Candidly With The Candidates (MP3) from 2007-08-23T10:22
Act 1: Randi Interviews Mike Gravel Part1 - The Randi Rhodes Show
Act 2: Thom Hartmann Interviews Ralph Nader - The Thom Hartmann Show
Act 3: Rachel Maddow Interviews Barack Obama - The Rac...
(2007/08/17) Sicko (MP3) from 2007-08-17T07:01
Act 1: Amy Goodman & Michael Moore (Part 1) - Democracy Now!
Act 2: Moore & Maher Interview - Real Time With Bill Maher
Act 3: Amy Goodman & Michael Moore (Part 2) - Democracy Now!
Act ...
(2007/08/10) from 2007-08-10T04:00
Act 1: Mormons in the media - On the Media Act 2: Creationist museum - Sam Seder Act 3: The Ex-Gay movement - NPR Act 4: Elves in Iceland - The Young Turks Act 5: Noam Chompski - The Time is Now Ac...
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(2007/07/04) World On Fire (MP3) from 2007-07-04T04:00
Act 1: Opening statement - Al Gore Act 2: Farewell to incandescent - ABC News Act 3: UN Climate Change Report - Part 1 - NewsHour Act 4: Intergovernmental report - BBC Act 5: UN Climate Change Repo...
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(2007/06/27) Dems Cave (I'm Shocked and Awed) (MP3) from 2007-06-27T16:16
Act 1: Dems are politically weak - Rachel Maddow Act 2: Not funding = not supprting: twisted logic - The Young Turks Act 3: Pannel Discussion - Seder on Sundays Act 4: Was Nader right? - The Pap ...
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(2007/06/08) Loss of Credibility (MP3) from 2007-06-08T04:01
Act 1: Batiste Interview Part 1 - Rachel Maddow Act 2: Bush Lost Credibility - Keith Olbermann Act 3: Batiste Interview Part 2 - Rachel Maddow Act 4: 11 Republicans Talk To Bush - Randi Rhodes Act ...
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(2007/06/07) Farewell to Falwell - Mini Show (MP3) from 2007-06-07T14:35
Act 1: Falwell Dies - Democracy Now Act 2: Farewell to Falwell - The Young Turks Act 3: Falwell - Rachel Maddow Act 4: Falwell - Mike Malloy Act 5: Falwell - Christopher Hitchens Act 6: Falwell - R...
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(2007/05/31) Cronyism Abounds (MP3) from 2007-06-01T01:49
Act 1: Leaders of Blackwater - NPR Act 2: On Halliburton - NPR Act 3: Wrongful deaths at Blackwater - NPR Act 4: The Power Pyamid - Ring of Fire Act 5: Blackwater in combat - NPR Act 6: Sociopaths ...
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(2007/05/14) On the Stand (MP3) from 2007-05-15T03:43
Act 1: Opening statement - Al Gore Act 2: Who killed the electric car? Part 1- Sam Seder Show Act 3: False balance on FOX - Counterspin Act 4: Q&A with Inhofe Part 1 - Al Gore Act 5: End of an era ...
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(2007/05/07) And They're Off (MP3) from 2007-05-07T21:43
Act 1: 08 Candidates - BBC Act 2: Gore for Prez - NY Times Act 3: The Media and Kucinich - CounterSpin Act 4: Strength in elections - The Young Turks Act 5: Where's the right hook? - NY Times Act 6...
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(2007/04/29) White House Scandal De Jour (MP3) from 2007-04-29T07:38
Act 1: Attorney Gate Part 1 - Democracy Now! Act 2: Myers wanted to fire the attorneys - The Young Turks Act 3: Attorney Gate Part 2 - Democracy Now! Act 4: We need to torture Gonzalez - Colbert Re...
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(2007/04/20) Step it Up 2007 (MP3) from 2007-04-20T04:00
Act 1: Live Speech Part 1 Act 2: Interview Part 1 - Radio Nation Act 3: Live Speech Part 2 Act 4: Interview Part 2 - Radio Nation Act 5: Live Speech Part 3 Act 6: Interview Part 3 - Radio Nation Ac...
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(2007/04/17) How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Stupid Adult Nicknames (MP3) from 2007-04-17T05:33
Act 1: The Overview - BBC Act 2: On the ground reporting - FireDogLake.com Act 3: Libby, Rove, Cheney - The Young Turks Act 4: The first interview - Countdown Act 5: We're gonna fuck 'em - Real Tim...
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(2007/04/13) Bungling on All Levels (MP3) from 2007-04-14T01:29
Act 1: Iraq Accountability Act - Nancy Pelosi Act 2: Brits withdrawing - BBC Act 3: Al Gore on Iraq in 2003 - Rachel Maddow Act 4: Kucinich on Iraq - Democracy Now! Act 5: Republican war hypocrisy ...
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(2007/04/12) A New Congress in Town (MP3) from 2007-04-12T04:00
Act 1: Uncle Marvin's molestation - The Young Turks Act 2: Privacy issues - Countdown Act 3: Pap Attack on Bush - Ring of Fire Act 4: Tim Ryan on the new congress - The Young Turks Act 5: Impeachme...
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(2007/03/29) The Cherry Blossoms Bloom Earlier Each Year in DC (MP3) from 2007-03-30T00:44
Act 1: Wes Clark on global warming - The Young Turks Act 2: Climate change - Sam Seder Show Act 3: The first energy president - NY Times Act 4: Climate change part 2 - Sam Seder Show Act 5: Climate...
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(2007/03/25) Checked and Balanced - We Investigate, You Reside (MP3) from 2007-03-25T17:55
Act 1: Bush not breaking the FISA law? - The Young Turks Act 2: Privacy concerns - Countdown Act 3: Pap Attack on George Bush - Ring of Fire Act 4: Tim Ryan on the new congress - The Young Turks Ac...
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(2007/03/15) Taking Care of the Commons (MP3) from 2007-03-16T01:17
Act 1: Veterans Affairs with Paul Rieckhoff - Part 1 - Al Franken Act 2: Top officer relieved of duty - NPR Act 3: Veterans Affairs with Paul Rieckhoff - Part 2 - Al Franken Act 4: Problems just be...
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(2007/03/08) MarchOnPentagon.org (MP3) from 2007-03-08T23:01
Act 1: Laura Bush on Iraq - The Daily Show Act 2: Surge debate - On the Media Act 3: Debate on escalation - Countdown Act 4: Bush's surge speech - Thom Hartmann Act 5: A risky game of Risk - NY Tim...
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(2007/03/06) United We Stand, Divided We Fall (MP3) from 2007-03-06T09:09
Act 1: Economic populism - Sam Seder Act 2: Barney Frank on economics - Ring of Fire Act 3: Economic inequality - Sam Seder Act 4: Bernie Sanders on economics Part 1 - Ring of Fire Act 5: Debating ...
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(2007/02/28) Information is to Power as Propaganda is to... (MP3) from 2007-02-28T19:11
Act 1: Broken Democracy Part 1 - Ring of Fire Act 2: 24 Promoting torture and fear - Countdown Act 3: Broken Democracy Part 2 - Ring of Fire Act 4: Media ownership - Sam Seder Act 5: Ripping O’reil...
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(2007/02/23) If We Could Pay You Less, We Would (MP3) from 2007-02-23T17:32
Act 1: Audio/Video Collage - Youtube (doroh76) Act 2: Jessica - Youtube (7daysatminimumwage) Act 3: Clean Bill Passes in House - Sam Seder Act 4: Ted Kennedy Goes Off - C-SPAN2 Act 5: Kennedy Goes ...
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(2007/02/12) It's Okay to Snicker at "Purity Balls" (MP3) from 2007-02-13T00:20
Act 1: America is not a Christian Nation - Ring of Fire Act 2: Pat Robertson makes predictions - The Young Turks Act 3: American Fascists, Chris Hedges - Ring of Fire Act 4: New Atheists - On the M...
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(2007/02/10) This Whole Health Care Debacle (MP3) from 2007-02-10T05:18
Act 1: The new health care plan - The Al Franken Show Act 2: Cure all for health care - The Colbert Report Act 3: Who's got a plan? - NPR On Point Act 4: Andy Stern on health care - Rachel Maddow A...
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(2007/01/29) New Boss Same as the Old Boss? (MP3) from 2007-01-30T04:45
Act 1: Comments on Pelosi's Speech - Randi Rhodes Act 2: Pelosi's Speech Act 3: Ted Kennedy interview Part 1 - Ring of Fire Act 4: First 100 hours complete - Randi Rhodes Act 5: Ted Kennedy intervi...
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(2007/01/22) The Longer We Stay the Sooner We can Leave (MP3) from 2007-01-23T05:00
Act 1: Surge Strategies - The Daily Show Act 2: If we'd heard this 4 years ago - Al Franken Act 3: The more things change... - Sam Seder Act 4: Sorry I keep punching you - The Young Turks Act 5: Ar...
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(2007/01/19) Freedom and Failure of the Press (MP3) from 2007-01-20T00:27
Act 1: WH Press Sec just doesn't know - Countdown Act 2: Failure of the press Part 1 - Ring of Fire Act 3: State of the media - Sam Seder Show Act 4: Failure of the press Part 2 - Ring of Fire Act ...
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(2007/01/17) Surge Without Sacrifice (MP3) from 2007-01-17T21:00
Act 1: Young Marines speaks out - Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy Act 2: Dems strongly anti-surge - Countdown Act 3: They told you so - NY Times Act 4: Iraq study group - Sam Seder Act 5: John Dean on...
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(2007/01/14) Gay Rights and Retirements (MP3) from 2007-01-14T06:11
Act 1: Laura Flanders on gay marriage - Radio Nation Act 2: Gay retirement community Part 1 - LeShow Act 3: Barney Frank on gay marriage - Ring of Fire Act 4: Gay retirement community Part 2 - LeSh...
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(2007/01/10) You Cannot Own the Land, the Land Owns You (MP3) from 2007-01-10T05:01
Act 1: Governor Brian Schweitzer - Mother Jones Radio Act 2: Heather Rogers - Gone Tomorrow Part 1 - Fire On the Prairie Act 3: US Dragging feet on climate change - BBC Act 4: Heather Rogers - Gone...
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(2007/01/09) Hen Now Guarding the Hen House (MP3) from 2007-01-08T01:20
Act 1: Even the die-hards have died - The Young Turks Act 2: The incoming congress - Countdown Act 3: More changing times - Ring of Fire Act 4: New congress actually has to work - The Young Turks A...
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(2006/12/30) As the World Burns (MP3) from 2006-12-30T20:10
Chapter 1: Act 1: While Iraq Burns - Randi Rhodes Act 2: Baghdad utilities - BBC Act 3: Iraq civil war - Countdown Act 4: Iraq and democracy - Democracy Now! Act 5: Suicide protester - Mike Malloy ...
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